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Ten Words from "The NY Times" - June 26, 2013
Ten Words from "The NY Times" - June 26, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - June 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.
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List of the Week: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series
You've seen the movie...no learn the Vocabulary Lists!
Summer is the perfect time to delve into not just L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but the entire "Oz" cycle. As you read, enrich your vocabulary by learning interactive word lists based on these timeless stories.
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Behind the DictionaryLexicographers Talk About Language
The Highest Dictionary in the Land? The Supreme Court and Definitions
Judges, like the rest of us, turn to dictionaries when they're not sure about the meaning of a word. Or they turn to dictionaries when they're sure about a word's meaning, but they need some confirmation. Or they turn to a dictionary that defines a word the way they want it defined, rejecting as irrelevant, inadmissible, and immaterial any definitions they don't like.
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As children the world over are released from school for summer vacations and long, lazy afternoons lost in good books, journalist Annie Murphy Paul elaborates on what is happening in our brains when we read in this way.
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In the latest quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary, one entry in particular has attracted attention: tweet, previously defined only as the chirping of birds, has been expanded to refer to 140-character Twitter updates as well. The OED loosened its usual "ten year rule" to let this newcomer in.
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Vocabulary.com to Present at ISTE Conference
On moving vocabulary instruction into the hands of students
Vocabulary.com will present at the Annual Conference & Exposition of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at the San Antonio Convention Center next week, on moving vocabulary instruction out of the classroom and into the hands of students.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Gina Bellafante for "Declaim"
One "declaimed absurdities" and Citi Bike.
Kudos to New York Times "Big City" columnist Gina Bellafante for invoking an ancient "-claim" when she referred to Dorothy Rabinowitz's deununciations of the Citi Bike bike-sharing program in New York as "declaimed absurdities."
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