Jane Austen's masterwork Pride and Prejudice turns 200 today! Join the birthday celebration by quizzing yourself on words that may smack more of 1813 than they do of 2013 with our Vocabulary List "50 Words from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice." Or check out the dozens of Pride and Prejudice Vocabulary Lists our users have made. Continue reading...
Dictionary Day comes but once a year, and here at Vocabulary.com we're whooping it up, tweeting our favorite word blurbs all day long. Continue reading...
Writing about the relationship between Russia and the Ukraine this past year, Steve Forbes has taken to using the somewhat rare word satrap. We're thrilled that Forbes is trotting out the not-often-seen word, but want to offer a correction. Continue reading...
In the world of competitive word-learning, the biggest summer tradition involves a little school from Texas mastering the most words in North America. Continue reading...
If you're disinterested, you're unbiased; you're out of the loop. But if you're uninterested, you don't give a hoot; you're bored. These two words have been duking it out, but the battle may be over for uninterested. Heavyweight disinterested has featherweight uninterested on the ropes. Continue reading...
Fictional, fictive, and fictitious all branch off the "fiction" tree, but fictional is literary, fictive is specific, and fictitious is just plain fake. Continue reading...
A fawn is a baby deer. If you flatter that deer to win their friendship by saying "What pretty white spots you have!" then you are fawning over it. In comparison, a faun is a half-human half-goat creature found in mythological legends. Continue reading...
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a stark contrast to the Republican Convention the week before. Here is an exploration of some of the more playful and interesting word choices. Continue reading...
We're rolling out some new features that might have you rethinking your school's Vocabulary Bowl game plan. With county leaderboards fueling local rivalries and State Champions banners that make a major award that much more attainable, this is the year for your school to go for it! Continue reading...