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Teachers: One of the best ways to motivate your students on Vocabulary.com is to show them evidence of their own success. But how do you define "success"? Set a goal. Here, we share eight strategies we've observed from real teachers using Vocabulary.com in their classrooms. The strategies can be used in schools and classrooms large and small, and range from goals for individual learners to leaderboards that put word learning in a national, and highly competitive, context. Continue reading...

In a comment on recent Blog post "Words We Love to Hate," Vocabulary.com user Sarah S. referenced the dreaded language of corporate speak: "Words like leverage, gamification, user interface, audience engagement, strategise...when I see the words 'align with' my aorta nearly pops!" And Sarah S. is not by any stretch of the imagination the first person to take issue with the language of corporate ladder climbing (or ladder clinging, as the case may be). Continue reading...

In a post on The New Yorker's Page Turner blog last week, poet Brad Leithauser meditated on what you can learn by examining a concordance (or list) of words used in an individual author's work. The piece on the relationship of writers and words suggests two activities word learners might want to try: Continue reading...

There's less than two months to go in the 2018-19 season. Find out which schools put the pedal to the metal in their race for the top spots on the leaderboards. Continue reading...

Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - July 11, 2012.

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Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - July 25, 2012.

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Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - August 1, 2012.

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Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - August 22, 2012.

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Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - August 29, 2012.

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