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High/low, yes/no, black/white. There's something reassuring about opposites. A lot of vocabulary teaching is done using pairs of opposites, and with good reason: learners really feel they have a handle on a concept if they grasp its antithesis. There are, however, some other concept families that are best learned using three terms — triples — that provide a middle ground which in turn enhances all three concepts.
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List of the Week: Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and "Antigone"
List of the Week: Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and "Antigone"
Brush up on your classic Greek drama vocabulary with two new lists: "Oedipus the King" and "Antigone".
When Snoopy takes out his typewriter and begins to compose a novel atop his doghouse, he always begins with "It was a dark and stormy night..." This phrase — originally appearing in a schmaltzy 19th century British novel — has come to symbolize all that can go wrong with melodramatic writing, especially the clumsy attempts of a writer trying to evoke a dramatic setting within the first sentence of a work of literature.
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Lists featured on Vocabulary.com were created or vetted by the Vocabulary.com curriculum development team to meet a certain standard of list quality. Here's six steps to making your own lists ready to share.
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List of the Week: Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"
Four new Vocabulary Lists!
Learn four new Vocabulary Lists from Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake: Chapters 1-3, Chapters 4-6, Chapters 7-9, Chapters 10-12.
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List of the Week: Toni Morrison Vocabulary
Learn words from "Sula" or "The Bluest Eye"
We've just added five new interactive lists of vocabulary from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
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Teachers Share Vocab Strategies on #engchat
Vocabulary.com's Ben Zimmer and Georgia Scurletis host discussion
Last night, Vocabulary.com executive producer Ben Zimmer and director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis hosted the weekly #engchat session, with a focus on fresh approaches to vocabulary instruction. Teachers shared resources, inspiration, and strategy.
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