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National Opposite Day is January 25th. In the spirit of this wacky occasion, here are some words you'll love or loathe. Continue reading...

Our To Kill a Mockingbird interactive word lists are among our most popular. But there's another kind of vocabulary you'll find in To Kill a Mockingbird: Southern-inflected words that testify to the more-defined regional nature of American English as it was spoken three quarters of a century ago. And with the news that Harper Lee will release a recently rediscovered novel written previous to To Kill a Mockingbird, we can only hope to find a rich store of Southern-inflected words there as well. Continue reading...

Cannon, with two n's, is a long heavy gun on wheels. Lose an n and the word canon is a set of rules or traditions. If you thought these words were spelled the same, you're not wrong: they used to be. Continue reading...

Compete in the world's largest academic competition! Hosted by Vocabulary.com, this bi-annual competition recognizes the premiere achievements in vocabulary learning. Winning schools, teachers, and students receive trophies and prizes to inspire and award academic excellence. Continue reading...

September was a record-setting month in the Vocabulary Bowl. Find out which schools out themselves in poll position during the last month of preseason play. Continue reading...

With March Madness under way and the AMC "Mad Men" premiere scheduled to air this Sunday night, the usage example tracker on our Dictionary page for the word mad is going, well, mad!

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Last week we interviewed the irrepressible Roy Blount, Jr. about his latest book, Alphabet Juice, an A-to-Z compendium of his musings on the glory of the English language. In this excerpt from the book's opening chapter, Blount considers the scholarly theory of the arbitrary relation between words and meanings, to which he firmly responds: "Arbitrary, schmarbitrary." Continue reading...

No matter where your school is located, no matter how many students it serves — every school has a solid shot at an award-winning finish in the Vocabulary Bowl. Continue reading...

Learn how your school can compete in the Vocabulary Bowl One-Day Halfway Challenge. Continue reading...