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We've redesigned the look and added some new features to Vocabulary Lists to make it easier to find and store the lists you most want to use. 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...

Vocabulary.com's Dictionary empowers learners at any level to learn new words through a variety of features. Continue reading...

Just in time for the beginning of the school year, linguist Neal Whitman investigates how "back to school" got transformed from a prepositional phrase to a noun phrase.

It's time for back to school! With Labor Day just around the corner, back to school is days away for many students across the nation, and for many others it has already come. Continue reading...

Over the last few days, America's Eastern seaboard has seen record levels of snow... accompanied by record levels of snow wordplay. There has been a blizzard of "portmanteau words" involving snow, with snowmageddon and snowpocalypse leading the way. On Twitter, the hashtag of choice has been snOMG, compactly joining snow with the online interjection OMG. We haven't seen this much seasonal word-blending since 2008's "summer of the staycation." Continue reading...

In writing about Harvard Medical School faculty member Dr. Angelo Volandes and the films he is making to help terminally-ill patients decide to opt out of medical intervention, The Atlantic contributing editor Jonathan Rauch uses mesomorph to describe Volandes' physical appearance. Continue reading...

In "Loving Las Vegas" for Harper's Magazine, Colson Whitehead uses hurly burly when he writes about a summer stint splitting a Let's Go student travel guide assignment among three friends. Continue reading...

Merriam-Webster can only take you so far with subtle words like "unscrupulous." Vocabulary.com is set up to teach you the nuances of meaning, so that you don't make mistakes when you use new words for the first time. Continue reading...

As you speed through the Challenge watching the words you’ve learned accumulate like so many dollars in the savings account of life, do you ever stop and wonder how many words are actually out there? Continue reading...