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Whether you're a football purist or just in it for the seven-layer nachos dip, here are some football-centric word learning resources, Super Bowl-style. Continue reading...

Florida's Margate Middle School needed help with vocabulary instruction. When they started implementing Vocabulary.com, the students' success built excitement for learning and also made headlines in the local media. Continue reading...

For the last five years, we've been partnering with the New York Times Learning Network on a Word of the Day feature, which runs every school day on the Learning Network's blog. Last year, just as the total was about to hit the 1,000 mark, we joined the Learning Network in sponsoring a Vocabulary Video Contest that was so fantastic, we're back with a second year of the challenge! Continue reading...

Follow news coverage of the Olympics, the minimum wage debate, and Ukraine from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage. Continue reading...

For the third year, Vocabulary.com is partnering with the New York Times Learning Network for our annual 15-second Vocabulary Video Contest for students. Continue reading...

Writing in The Telegraph recently, a teacher of English as a foreign language described strategies for mastering ESL vocabulary. Here, we digest some of her strategies that work equally well for learning the vocabulary of your native tongue. Continue reading...

We're excited to announce some changes to how words are learned on Vocabulary.com. With these changes, learning Vocabulary Lists is now fully integrated into your overall progress toward mastering words. The result is a more seamless and efficient learning experience, no matter where you learn words on Vocabulary.com. Continue reading...

Writers live by their lists of words, and there is no better way to expand your personal arsenal than by building lists using the Advanced Search feature in our dictionary. Follow along as we make a list of 195 color words to learn how to use this powerful tool. Continue reading...

On this day in history, NY Times writers reported on preparations for the Civil War, which would break out the following day. Learn ten words they used in Ten Words from NY Times History - April 11, 1861.

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