What Were the "Vocabulary Moments" of the First Democratic Debate?
Analyzing the candidates' rhetoric with Vocabulary.com's "word's-eye view."
Last night, the five Democratic candidates for president squared off in the first of their televised debates, moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her four challengers, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb, and Lincoln Chafee, stated their cases to primary voters, and their rhetoric was crystallized in the vocabulary items they used. But what were their significant "vocabulary moments"?
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A Current-Events Mini Lesson: Trans-Pacific Trade
Teach Trans-Pacific Trade Using 10-Word Vocabulary List
Social studies teachers: For a current-events mini lesson on the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, check out our 10-word Vocabulary List, drawn from five key sentences in the New York Times article announcing the agreement.
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The Presidential (and Not So Presidential) Vocabulary of the Second GOP Debate
Vocabulary.com provides another "word's-eye view" of the candidates
At the second Republican presidential debate, held last night at the Reagan Presidential Library and aired on CNN, the candidates jockeyed for the attention of primary voters. There are many ways of judging their performances, but what better way than to analyze their choice of words?
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Our Word's-Eye View of the First GOP Debate
Corpus-based analysis highlights the candidates' most relevant words
In a rapid-response survey of candidates' vocabulary in the first GOP debate, broadcast last night on Fox News, Vocabulary.com analyzed the transcript to identify each candidate's most relevant vocabulary word. And the data-driven approach yielded some interesting results about the candidates' language use.
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For Vocab Learners: Shakespeare, Melville...and Eminem?!
Of top selling artists, Hip Hop's the most vocab intensive.
Sparking comments about Kanye West giving Bob Dylan the "thesaurus blues," a new survey of the vocabulary of top-selling musical artists puts Eminem at the top of a chart dominated by hip hop in general.
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Some "Jazzy" Words and "Jazz" History
Just in time for the centennial of the word's first musical use.
July 11, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the first musical use of the word jazz. To celebrate, we've put together a list of vocabulary from quotes about what Jazz is as an art form and what it has meant in the lives of those quoted, as well as links to the story of jazz's origin.
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Before you head to a theater this weekend to check out the new disaster movie San Andreas (or while you're waiting in line for tickets), add 12 earthquake- and movie-related vocabulary to your word learning with "San Andreas" Vocabulary. (Science teachers, this one's for you!)
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