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The Best Mother's Day Gift Ever? Your Words
Let her know you can see all she does for you
This Mother's Day, show Mom a little love (and a whole lot of appreciation) by tweeting or posting our Mother's Day video thank you card — a vocabulary list brought to life.
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Writing for Vulture about changes in format for television shows, New York Magazine critic Matt Zoller Seitz called the new, freer-form series "bespoke TV." So what does this word used to describe custom-made clothing mean in a television context?
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Writing for Vulture, "the first in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future," The Roots' Questlove uses the word trivial in such a knowledgeable and cool way we had to offer up a shout-out.
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Once upon a time, fellas, gentleman, and guys roamed the land. Eventually, we become dudes. Unfortunately, many of us became bros. Bro is also a staple of word-making. Based on sheer prolificness, bro may be the affix of the decade.
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Words You Ought to Know But Don't: Call it Bubble Vocab?
Slate contributor gives this word-learning phenomenon a name
A great challenge for anyone looking to improve their vocabulary is identifying the words they don't know. Yesterday, Slate contributor Seth Stevenson gave the phenomenon a name in Bubble vocabulary: the words you almost know, sometimes use, but are secretly unsure of.
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Last month we launched the Vocabulary.com app for iPhones and iPads, bringing the addictive Vocabulary.com game and the powerful dictionary that supports it to the palm of your hand. The release was an instant hit, rocketing to the top of the App Store charts for education apps. Today we are pleased to announce that the Vocabulary.com app is now available for Android devices as well.
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Word Tasting Note: "Victuals"
Could this word by any other name taste so sweet?
Victuals is one of those words that many people know by sound and sight but have not put sound and sight together. It's sort of like knowing someone by name and knowing someone by face, but not realizing the two are the same person. Until you accidentally find out, and it's usually embarrassing.
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