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National Hat Day is this month. Here's a collection of fashionable, practical, and unusual words for hats, hoods, and other headgear. Continue reading...

We're at about the darkest time of the year, so why not brighten things up with the lexicon of light? Continue reading...

If you can't say anything nice (or know someone who fits that description), read this column! The lexicon of beastliness is as sweet as the boors themselves are bitter. Continue reading...

Here at Vocabulary.com, there's nothing we enjoy more than when kids get fired up about vocabulary improvement. As you'll see in this video, that's exactly what happens when students compete in a Vocabulary Jam. Continue reading...

Ta-dah! Here's a peek at our new photo gallery wall. We couldn't have done it without you — literally. Continue reading...

You're familiar with canine and feline, but there's a marvelous menagerie of animal adjectives (Anserine! Piscine! Vulpine!) that we don't want to wind up on the endangered vocab list and disappear forever. So do your part: learn them and use them, either literally or metaphorically. Continue reading...