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Is fritter a delicious fried pastry? Or what you did when you spent your inheritance on Botox and truffles? If contemporary means “belonging to the present time,” how come you can’t use it interchangeably with current, as in “Change the channel––the contemporary show is boring as all get out”?

Learn fritter, contemporary, and nine other context-sensitive words in a new list in the Test Prep category, Words You Need to See in the Wild.

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Studying for the PSAT? Vocabularian Leigha A. made "My 2012 PSAT Words," a list of 48 words to learn before taking the test, including "words that are used in the definitions of the words I found in the PSAT."

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Does a recent study suggesting we remember better when we're interested in what we're remembering spell trouble for vocabulary learners who aren't all that interested in words as words? Not necessarily. Continue reading...

Who would ever imagine that you could drive around a corner in Carteret, New Jersey and have the word abattoir (and a cow head) staring at you?! Check out the image, then send us yours and collect a prize! Continue reading...

Recently we were able to interview Jessica Conrad, a speech language pathologist and technology integration specialist with the Johnson County and Surrounding Schools district in Franklin, IN, who had just reviewed Vocabulary.com for her district website. Her review had highlighted a feature that might not jump out at you at first: hints. Continue reading...

We had so much fun watching the 500-plus vocabulary videos sent in the Vocabulary.com-New York Times Learning Network vocabulary in video contest that we just couldn't narrow the winners down to a logical five, but had to choose seven, and list a hefty number of honorable mentions. Continue reading...

We've been following news of schools across the country taking a creative approach to deep vocabulary learning and a celebration of language with vocabulary costume days or vocabulary parades. This example of the idea in action is so beyond adorable, we just had to share. Continue reading...

Honor the life and writing of Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) by learning an Elmore Leonard Vocabulary List of words drawn from his New York Times obituary, "A Novelist Who Made Crime an Art, and His Bad Guys 'Fun.'" Continue reading...

Following up on the American Association of School Librarians' selection of Vocabulary.com as a "Best Website for Teaching and Learning 2014," the association released a review of Vocabulary.com, in which it recommends our site for differentiated learning and suggests several concrete ways teachers can make use of our tool. 

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