Schools have hit the ground running in the new year, ready to learn new words and break new records. Check out the highlights and shoutouts from the fourth month of the '19 – '20 Vocabulary Bowl season. Continue reading...
Gelett Burgess. Rings a bell? This irrepressible early 20th century figure was at once a linguistic inventor, humorist, poet and creative powerhouse who today is... almost forgotten. Which is a shame, and which is why we celebrate the re-release after a long, long slumber of his classic Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed. We spoke to lexicographer Paul Dickson, who wrote a new foreword to the book, about this remarkable man and his work. Continue reading...
Achieve true word mastery and boost test scores in your classroom with Vocabulary.com's award-winning adaptive engine that enables word mastery over just memorization. Continue reading...
My friend Laura knows four languages plus "bits and pieces" of six others. That's impressive, but it's not quite in the same league as folks who pick up languages the way George Clooney picks up starlets: with frightening ease. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a lot written, in academic or popular literature, on hyperpolyglots: people who know not just two or three languages, but six or ten or twenty. Continue reading...
The latest installment in Maryrose Wood's Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series hits bookstores tomorrow. It's delightfully rich in adventure, humor, and...vocabulary. In honor of its release, Wood joins us to talk about why she loves to use big words with kid readers. And to define pteridological. Continue reading...
In the second annual Vocabulary Bowl, an astounding number of students participated in the battle to see which school could master the most words. A whopping 582,785 students from 23,804 schools across North America competed and collectively mastered 14,108,105 words! Continue reading...
Starting today you'll notice a new interface when you visit Vocabulary.com. We call it our new "card navigation" and we're pretty excited about it. Continue reading...
At Vocabulary.com, we get a consistent message from our users. They're "addicted" to the Vocabulary.com Challenge. Recently, we took a look at the best-selling book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg to try to understand why. Continue reading...
This past Thursday, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released the results of vocabulary questions from the 2009 and 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, which included questions on word meaning for the first time. Continue reading...