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Ever since hippies embraced it in the '60s, granola has always had countercultural connotations. In the years since it took the country by storm, the words crunchy and granola, together and even individually, have come to act as shorthand adjectives to describe people with a streak of cultural rebellion, from vegetarians and war protesters in the '70s to hybrid electric car drivers and vaccine-rejecting parents in the 2000s.
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List of the Week: Barron's GRE Words
List of the Week: Barron's GRE Words
Vocabulary.com user Sivabalan T. made a GRE study list based on Barron's 17th edition study guide: "GRE High Frequency Words."
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In Vocabulary at the Core, Amy Benjamin and John T. Crow assert that word study should play a more significant role in English class and across the curriculum — as emphasized by the Common Core State Standards. In this excerpt, Benjamin and Crow explain the difference between receptive control and productive control of words and why our students' receptive vocabulary remains considerably larger than their productive vocabulary.
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 10, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 10, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - October 10, 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.
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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