When Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, MD used Vocabulary.com to improve its lexile scores, their success inspired a district-wide adoption among Title 1 schools to achieve literacy goals. 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...
The word facetious describes something you don't take seriously. Remove the middle "e," and factious describes a dissenting group. And finally there's fatuous, which is a fancy way to say dumb. Continue reading...
Follow the story of an Ohio high school addressing reading deficits behind the achievement gap with a targeted vocab intervention using Vocabulary.com. Students are having fun with the game and teachers love the progress they are making. Continue reading...
It's time once again for our monthly installment of the Vocabulary Bowl Top 20 Roundup, our SportsCenter-style broadcast recognizing the schools around the country that have come out on top of the Vocab Bowl leaderboards. Continue reading...
A paradox is a logical puzzle that seems to contradict itself. No it isn't. Actually, it is. An oxymoron is a figure of speech — words that seem to cancel each other out, like "working vacation" or "instant classic." Continue reading...
A connotation is the feeling a word invokes. But take note! A denotation is what the word literally says. If these words were on a trip, connotation would be the baggage, and denotation would be the traveler. Continue reading...