Six years running, the logophiles at Wayne State University, a.k.a. the Wayne State Word Warriors, have curated a crowd-sourced list of rare words that "deserve a bit more love." These are words that used to be commonly known and are still useful, but have started to drop out of the English lexicon. Wayne State Warriors' mission? To bring them back.Continue reading...
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and prepare for Black History Month in February with a plethora of vocabulary learning resources found on Vocabulary.com.Continue reading...
After spending more than 180 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Lauren Hillenbrand's Unbroken reached film going audiences this week through a new movie directed by Angelina Jolie. After marveling at the story of resilience and heroism, learn the vocabulary Hillenbrand employed to tell the tale via five Vocabulary Lists:Continue reading...
Looking to make your writing more vivid? Start with color! Here are more than 195 words to help you paint pictures in your readers' minds.Continue reading...
Creative writers, this one's for you! A mood-words graphic that's been making its way around the Internet charts the way 100 words describing various emotional states all boil down to fear, anger, happiness, anger, and disgust.Continue reading...
Can a large vocabulary make you...sexy? If you're Tom Hiddleston, the actor who plays Loki in the film Thor, the answer is yes. According to a recent Bustle compilation of Hiddleston's greatest feats of vocabulary derring-do, we've compiled a list of words "guaranteed to make you swoon."Continue reading...
We're always on the lookout for lists and mentions of rare or unusual words, and the bigger the better. Thus, we read with great interest the Huffington Post piece on "Big, Beautiful Words You Need To Start Using Immediately."Continue reading...