Vocabulary.com Blog
Articles from March, 2013
Bloomberg Businessweek.com offers regular tips to SAT learners from Vivian Kerr of Veritas Test Prep, including a recent roundup of strategies for vocabulary learning. Here we take a look at determining if words are "charged" with positive or negative connotations.
Continue reading...
Tasty MorselsGood stuff from Vocabulary.com
List of the Week: "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
A Whale of a List!
Learn the vocabulary Melville used to write his great and complicated 1851 masterpiece.
Continue reading...
The city of Providence, RI is embarking on a bold initiative to narrow the "word gap": young children in families of lower socioeconomic status tend to hear fewer words in their home environment than higher-income counterparts, leading to inequalities in academic success when they enter school. Providence has won a $5 million grant to address this problem by means of a high-tech vocabulary intervention program, as our own Ben Zimmer writes in his latest Boston Globe column.
Continue reading...
Tasty MorselsGood stuff from Vocabulary.com
Ten Words from The NY Times - Mar. 26, 2013
Ten Words from The NY Times - Mar. 26, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - Mar. 26, 2013.
Then see "Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn" to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
At Vocabulary.com, we take the concept of word mastery seriously. Here's why.
Continue reading...
The NCAA College Basketball Tournament, nicknamed "March Madness," is in full swing again, and some early-round upsets have spelled bad news for those betting on chalk, meaning the favorites in the tournament. How did the term chalk come to be associated with teams favored by oddsmakers? A Word Routes column by Ben Zimmer has the answer.
Continue reading...
The pope gets to wear nice red shoes, and a friend said, "I'm really jealous of those!" But, technically, she couldn't be jealous, unless she thought the shoes were hers, and the pope had stolen them. Instead, she "envied" the shoes, and was "envious" that he gets to wear them.
Continue reading...
Sign up now (it’s free!)
Whether you’re a teacher or a learner,
Vocabulary.com can put you or your class
on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.