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For Word Watchers, a Rare "Eleemosynary" Sighting
When Reading Becomes Bird-Watching
When you come across a word like eleemosynary, it's time to whip out the binoculars and step into the waders. Reading has become word watching, where, as in bird watching, rarity is the thrill.
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Writing for Vulture, "the first in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future," The Roots' Questlove uses the word trivial in such a knowledgeable and cool way we had to offer up a shout-out.
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Ever since College Board President David Coleman announced that the redesigned SAT would replace its testing of more obscure words such as mendacious or treacly with the analysis of more frequent, multiple-meaning words in context, educators have been fretting about what this may mean for the study of vocabulary and for the precision of the next generation of American students' English in general.
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Dept. of Word Lists
A Quick Current Events Quiz: Pulitzer Prizes in the News
Make sure you're up on these ten words essential for talking about the forces shaping our culture
Talking about the Pulitzer Prizes awarded this week? Make sure you're up on these ten words.
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Dept. of Word Lists
"Native Son" Vocabulary: Wright's Unerring Gaze
"Native Son" Vocabulary: Wright's Unerring Gaze
Although the hero of Richard Wright's classic tale of the African American experience has a hard time coming up with words, Wright never falters.
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When I was studying Spanish and had gotten to the point where our assignments consisted of reading real books, I kept a well-thumbed dictionary on my desk. Every paragraph seemed to contain several words that I had to look up, which was tedious and slow. Our wise teacher kept telling us that we didn't need to do that—you don't actually have to know what every word means to understand the text.
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Tips & Tricks
Vocab Blast: One Teacher's One Day Word Learning Challenge
Middle School Students Storm a Vocabulary Hill
A literacy coach set out to storm the Vocabulary.com school leaderboards by herself and ended reaching her goal with an army of middle schoolers at her side, setting off a blaze of word learning excitement at her school.
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