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In a review of Clive James's new translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, critic Tom Bissell used the word theodicy to great effect. Continue reading...

Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - July 10, 2013. Then see "Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn" to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.

You'll find words you don't see every day woven into the tapestry of Isabel Allende's bestselling and critically-acclaimed The House of the Spirits. Learn them with five new interactive vocabulary lists drawn from the novel. 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...

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Brush up on hallow, consecrate, and proposition as you honor the holiday and the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg with "Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address'."

Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - July 3, 2013. Then see "Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn" to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.

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Check out five new interactive Vocabulary Lists based on Common Core text exemplars The Joy Luck Club and "Mother Tongue," by Amy Tan. Continue reading...

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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Tom Bissell for "Theodicy"

Providing cultural context for readers of Dante.

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 10, 2013

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 10, 2013

List of the Week: Allende's "The House of the Spirits"

Vocabulary Shout-Out: Nick Paumgarten for "Jawboning"

Check out a sense of this word specific to financial/political spheres

Celebrate July 4th With Gettysburg Address Vocabulary

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 3, 2013

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 3, 2013

List of the Week: Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club"

Supplement "The Joy Luck Club" with Tan's personal essay, "Mother Tongue"

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 10, 2013

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 10, 2013

Celebrate July 4th With Gettysburg Address Vocabulary

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 3, 2013

Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 3, 2013

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