Here at Vocabulary.com, there's nothing we enjoy more than when kids gets fired up about vocabulary improvement. As you'll see in this video, that's exactly what happens when students compete in a Vocabulary Jam.
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Ta-dah! Here's a peek at our new photo gallery wall. We couldn't have done it without you — literally.
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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.
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These days we need all the levity, lunar or otherwise, that we can get. This lexical lunacy is a flimsy excuse for me to write about my favorite type of word: the reduplication. From ack-ack to zip-zap, reduplicative words are silly, childish, catchy, animalistic, nonsensical, and awesome.
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These chaos-describing words have, for the most part, a violent pedigree. Today's "ruckus" was likely a deadly event in the days of yore. We dive into a disorderly group of words that are appropriate for discussing both petty and primordial pandemonium.
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We like the idea of giving someone another shot so much that we thought we'd explore the language of getting things right.
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National Dog Day is on August 26th. In honor of our (mostly) amenable friends, learn these synonyms for obedient.
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