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Articles from October, 2012
Today, we're celebrating an important milestone for Vocabulary.com: the addition of the 100,000th question in the Challenge. And we're confident that the hard work we've put into creating so many questions will pay off in an even better experience for everyone playing the Challenge. Why? Because when it comes to learning words, variety and repetition are key, and 100,000 questions guarantees we can provide that to you.
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As Americans celebrate Columbus Day, it's worth reflecting on the complicated cultural and linguistic legacy that Christopher Columbus left behind. There's a single word that aptly illustrates this legacy and all of its contradictions: Indians, the mistaken name that Columbus gave to the native peoples of the Americas.
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The most memorable line in Wednesday night's presidential debate, at least if social media is any indication, came when Mitt Romney vowed to cut funding to PBS but added, "I like PBS. I love Big Bird." President Obama had a good comeback for the Big Bird line... except he delivered it a day later.
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As teachers begin to grapple with the demands of the Common Core State Standards, they may be overlooking a discrete language standard living in the shadows of those major shifts.
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 3, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 3, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - October 3, 2012.
Then see Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
Hi! Hey! Ho! Yo! Ahem. Good day, ladies and gentlemen, umm, I'd like to address you today about the silly little words that we, umm, use without knowing if they're words or not: words like hey, hi, ho, yo, ahem, and umm. Here's hoping you don't find the topic ho-hum. (Oy, is anyone out there listening?)
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List of the Week: Helena B.'s Hardest SAT Words
Vocabulary.com user Helena B. created a new list this week: "300 Most Difficult SAT Words."
She describes her list as the "hardest out of the 1000 most common SAT words," and suggests that learning them is the "safest way to guarantee a good mark in the critical reading and writing sections." Are you up for Helena B.'s challenge?
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