Articles from 2012

Short and spare, and following a two and a half hour oration that had brought listeners to tears, The Gettysburg Address received only polite applause when Abraham Lincoln delivered the speech. Of course, it has since come to be considered one of our country’s defining statements of national values.

Now, in honor of the fast-approaching Presidents’ Day holiday and our own continuing celebration of list learning on Vocabulary.com, we bring you Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" Vocabulary List, ready for you to learn.

In honor of Valentine's Day, let's revisit one of the most famous couples in the love-story canon: Romeo and Juliet. Remember how the prologue to Shakespeare's play introduces them? "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life."