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Looking for a quick and easy way to include vocabulary instruction in your curriculum? These three steps will help you save prep and classroom time, differentiate instruction, and create a vocabulary learning experience students say is addictive and fun. Continue reading...

Sen. Chuck Schumer earned some attention for himself last week by using the word agglomerate in a statement to the press, saying of a series of immigration bills coming out of the House, ""they'll all get agglomerated as we go to conference at some point." Emily Heil of The Washington Post had this to say about Schumer's word choice. Continue reading...

Anyone seeking out a rich and unusual vocabulary need search no further than the pages of an old book. It doesn't have to be dusty volume shedding its leather binding into your coffee like so much unwanted nutmeg. Vocabulary-rich literary classics are rife with words that used to be part of everyday speech and now we encounter much less often. Continue reading...

How do you get kids, especially younger ones, aware of the importance of word learning? Through stories, of course. And there's no better place to start than with Debra Frasier's award-winning classic Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster. Continue reading...

You've read the book... You've seen the movie... Now: Learn The Hunger Games Vocabulary Lists!

Find a list for every chapter here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.

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If you're using indite to talk about people being formally accused of lawbreaking, you're using the wrong word: it's indict. Continue reading...

If your teacher offered you a choice between an intense course or an intensive one, which one would you choose? And would you wonder what his intent was? Continue reading...

In a review of Clive James's new translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, critic Tom Bissell used the word theodicy to great effect. Continue reading...