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Articles from February, 2014
Meryl Davis and Charlie White made history this week as the first Americans ever to win the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing. But for language watchers, an even more interesting question than who would take first place was this: What's a twizzle?
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Just weeks after we saw miscreant used to describe Chris Christie, we see it again in Sunday's New York Times, where writer William D. Cohan used it to describe the wolf of "The Wolf of Wall Street" fame, Jordan Belfort.
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Dept. of Word Lists
A Quick Current Events Vocab Quiz: "Apt" Words for Ukraine
Meanwhile, minimum wage hike vocab plus more from the Olympic games
Follow news coverage of the Olympics, the minimum wage debate, and Ukraine from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.
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A Librarian Brings Vocabulary.com to Her School Via Webinar
Find her write-up (and pictures!) on her blog
Iowa super-librarian Shannon Miller recently posted on her blog about introducing Vocabulary.com to fifth and sixth graders through a webinar led by Vocabulary.com director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis. The verdict: Students were "Having Fun And Learning Lots Of New Words."
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Dept. of Word Lists
Vocab from the "Other Olympians": New Percy Jackson Lists!
A Kid Favorite Sure to Inspire Word Learning
Look for Vocabulary pertaining to the other kind of Olympian? Check out five new vocabulary lists from the kid-favorite Rick Riordan series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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Today is the federal observation of George Washington's birthday, also called Presidents' Day. Five years ago, an unfortunate typo was discovered in a quotation from Washington chiseled on the front of the New York State Supreme Courthouse. That typo still lingers today.
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Dept. of Word Lists
What Makes Vocabulary Presidential?
Learn lists from presidents' speeches to find out
Presidents' speeches — and vocabulary choices — set the tone of their eras. Here at Vocabulary.com, we're in the business of preserving them through a series of lists drawn from some of the most well-known presidential speeches. Celebrate Presidents' Day today by trolling through the collection, or, for Presidents' Day purists, learn lists consisting exclusively of Washington's or Lincoln's words.
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