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Articles from 2017
There's so much more to New Year's than auld lang syne and a toast at midnight, so start anew by learning some of the more unusual customs and words associated with this holiday.
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Use these tips to plan ahead with Vocabulary.com, and your students will make progress even when they're not in school.
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Words won't keep you warm in the winter, and they won't shovel your driveway. But they will improve the quality of your complaints about the winter. At least that's something.
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Star Wars has made many contributions to English, but none more significant that Jedi.
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Students across North America master a staggering number of words, Etiwanda wins a stunning 8th banner but still falls a little short, and "Larry Lexicon" makes us smile.
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
Octlantis: A Word and World With Many Tentacles
And Other Weird, Wonderful Octo- Words
The recent discovery of Octlantis, an undersea community of octopuses just off the eastern coast of Australia, is a reminder of how a novel blend can perfectly name a new phenomenon, no matter how wild or multi-tentacled.
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Black Friday. Small Business Saturday. Cyber Monday. Here's an alternative to the retail frenzy: accumulate some new words. They don't take up any space, and they're free!
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