Palette can refer to a range of colors. A platform used for moving things is a pallet. And your preference of flavors in food is your palate. Continue reading...
In writing about Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten invoked a very specific sense of the verb jawbone. Continue reading...
Eleanor Catton, who was awarded the Man Booker Prize earlier this week for her novel The Luminaries, uses the rare and interesting spume. Continue reading...
In a commencement address given at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs used words like karma, entrepreneur, intuition, and idealism. What word would you want to give a college grad to equip them for life? Continue reading...
Whether you're delving into genre study or your students just really enjoy fantasy fiction, these ready-made curriculum resources will prep your students for closer, more enjoyable reading. Continue reading...