Students: The New York Times Wants Your Vocabulary Videos!
Explain words in 15 seconds or less to win
Did you ever think your 15 minutes (or at least 15 seconds) of fame would come via a vocabulary video? Now, here's your chance, with a vocabulary-in-video context sponsored by The New York Times Learning Network.
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The Student Perspective: Vocabulary.com "Has Your Back"
College life website says Vocabulary.com beats flashcards on "many levels"
"Keeping track of all those flashcards is such a hassle, but Vocabulary.com is hassle free," writes college sophomore Lili Borland in a review of Vocabulary.com for the student-run college admissions blog, The Prospect.
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Common Sense Media, the well-regarded independent site that reviews media for children, recently evaluated Vocabulary.com, and determined that the site's "a great learning resource" that's "fun," "easy to use," and "well designed." The review focused primarily on Vocabulary.com's appropriateness for children, concluding that it works best for kids age 13 and up. Read the full rating here.
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Today is National Dictionary Day! And as big fans of the dictionary as a concept, an object, and an online tool, we are celebrating by asking Vocabularians to let us know their "happiest moment" with a Dictionary.
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Inspired by a picture we snapped of the Carteret Abattoir in Carteret, NJ, we launched a "You Saw WHAT?! on a Sign? Vocabulary In Signage" contest. Over the last month, we've collected loads of great examples of words like abattoir out in the world, and here we share prize-winning contributions.
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A Conversation on Human Rights...Via a Vocabulary List
Vocabulary.com Contributes to New York Times Learning Network Blog Post
Vocabulary.com shared the story of a single Vocabulary List sparking an international conversation on human rights, as a contribution to the New York Times Learning Network blog.
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On Wednesday night, members of Congress and the press will publicly demonstrate their spelling prowess in a reprisal of a 1913 spelling bee, "Best Speller in the United States."
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