If you're teaching Toni Morrison's classic Beloved or just reading it, these new lists will help you harness the power of her language.Continue reading...
On New Year's Day 1959, New York Times readers woke to headlines about a communist takeover in Cuba. Learn ten words that defined that moment here.Continue reading...
Stop getting lost among Dickensian thickets as you traipse behind Ebenezer Scrooge on his Christmas Eve journey. Instead give yourself the gift of word learning.Continue reading...
This week's news is marked by Olympic torch bearing ineptitude leading up to the Sochi Games, speculation as to discussion topics at a Fed conclave, and the Indian government's diplomatic retaliation after a member of its corps was arrested and strip searched while on a mission in the United States.Continue reading...
As Bilbo tracks his dragon, tame the vocabularian beasts that block your path with our List of the Week: Vocabulary from The Hobbit. Learn them before you see the film!Continue reading...
While mourners burnish Mandela's memory, Ukrainian protesters brandish makeshift weapons against security forces. Meanwhile, in the US, legislators agree on budget terms and we look at the budgeting term infrastructure.Continue reading...