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We're excited to announce some changes to how words are learned on Vocabulary.com. With these changes, learning Vocabulary Lists is now fully integrated into your overall progress toward mastering words. The result is a more seamless and efficient learning experience, no matter where you learn words on Vocabulary.com. Continue reading...
Frederick Douglass wrote with fire in his pen, harnessing the specific and powerful language of his day to decry the abomination of slavery in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Continue reading...
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Meditating on the contrast between the "vintage" men's downhill races and the newer, funky-vocabulary-intensive snowboard halfpipe and slopestyle events, New York Times writer Christopher Clarey used a fairly funky piece of vocabulary himself: quadrennium Continue reading...

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As President François Hollande's solo appearance at a lavish State dinner challenges protocol experts, Olympian skiers tie for the gold amid abundant sunshine, and, after a night of mulling, House Speaker John A. Boehner abandons of another debt-ceiling debate, we present this week's news via a Quick Vocab Quiz! Continue reading...
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With the 2014 Sochi Olympics well underway, and gimme vocabulary like heat, final, champion, medal, and competition rolling readily off your tongue, it's time to take your Olympics vocabulary learning to the next level. Continue reading...
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Writing for The New York Times last week about the tricky process of translating dialect from one language to another, literary translator Anthony Shugaar used the not-often-seen interlard. Continue reading...
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With "Choice Words from Philip Seymour Hoffman's Roles," we honor the actor in a Vocabulary List of eleven words he spoke on stage and screen. Continue reading...
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