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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - Mar. 20, 2013
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - Mar. 20, 2013
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - Mar. 20, 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.
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List of the Week: "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
"First the colors. Then the humans."
Learn these ten lists as you read Australian author Markus Zusak's 2006 novel The Book Thief.
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An eighth grade English teacher shows us how
Recently, eighth-grade English teacher Deborah Ryles from Correia Middle School in San Diego told us how she's differentiating vocabulary instruction in her classroom with Vocabulary.com.
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Scalawag, "a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel," is a fun word to say. It sounds like something a pirate on the high seas might call a rival. In fact, it originated in western New York in the 1830s, and a young genealogy buff recently turned up some fascinating early evidence on the word when he was investigating an ancestor.
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This is a topical word: the cardinal electors have just spent two days locked into their pressure-cooker, the Sistine Chapel, to determine who will bear the keys of St. Peter. They were all sequestered in the Vatican, that enclave in the middle of the Eternal City, locked in debate and prayer and voting. Literally locked in: the doors of the Sistine Chapel were locked.
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Under the HoodThe science of vocabulary building
Vocabulary Intervention Project Wins $5 Million Prize
Providence RI wins Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge
Providence, RI won the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge competition for ideas to improve city life, with an innovative proposal for vocabulary intervention in families raising children in poverty.
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Etymology — the roots (or, etymologically speaking, seeds) of words — can sound like a pretty dry pursuit if you aren't a word farmer by trade. But knowing a word's derivation has all kinds of benefits. It can make you a better, more nuanced communicator, of course, and if you happen to find words fascinating and beautiful, it can heighten your, ahem, textual pleasure.
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