Tricky as they may be, vocabulary-in-context questions are important. They're one of the hallmarks of the Common Core, play an important role in the SAT, and more to the point, more accurately reflect the kind of nuanced mastery of language you need to do well in school. Here's how we help you get them right. Continue reading...
Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin offers a "word story" on cacophony, which she finds to be "a very apt term for the digital world." Continue reading...
What's the best present to get a group of middle schoolers who have just learned a ton of new words? How about $500 worth of books that, thanks to their improved vocabularies, they'll be more easily able to enjoy and understand? Continue reading...
Brazen was the word used by many to describe the Etiwanda High School's impressive ascent to North American Vocabulary Bowl Champion at their high-octane awards celebration. The Eagles exploded onto the competitive word-learning scene last September and never looked back. Continue reading...
Today is National Dictionary Day, celebrating the birth of lexicographer Noah Webster, who wrote An American Dictionary of the English Language, which defined an American version of the English lexicon for the first time. To celebrate, let us know your favorite all-American word. Continue reading...
Vocabulary.com executive producer and lexicographer Ben Zimmer and director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis will host a live Twitter discussion with English teachers on Monday night from 7 to 8 p.m. EST at #engchat on "Word Play: Gamifying Vocabulary Instruction." Continue reading...
Have a list of vocabulary words to learn for school? Need to learn to spell a list of words? Want to improve your reading comprehension? Not only is Vocabulary.com an excellent tool for building vocabulary, it can help you do your homework as well. Continue reading...
The first month of the 2018-19 Vocabulary Bowl went down as the biggest season-opener ever. Find out which schools cracked the Top 10 in their divisions and watch our shout-outs to some of the upstarts and underdogs across North America. Continue reading...
For the Slate podcast Lexicon Valley, I explored the peculiar origins of the word boondoggle, which took a strange trip from the world of Boy Scouts to the world of politics 80 years ago. Continue reading...