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"If I Keep Going, I Start to Understand the Definition More."
A 9th grader talks about using Vocabulary.com
Ninth grader Frankie O. shares his experience using Vocabulary.com, where he's busy learning words like conceited, foolhardy, and lineament.
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In my latest column for The Boston Globe, I observed that Beantown has more than its fair share of local terms for sketchy traffic maneuvers: the Boston left, the Boston bump, the Boston block, and so forth. But these regional labels can be found all over the country, and new ones keep cropping up.
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List of the Week: "Tuck Everlasting"
Learn vocabulary from Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting with these new word lists: Prologue-Chapter 5, Chapters 6-9, Chapters 10-13, Chapters 14-17, Chapters 18-22, Chapters 23-Epilogue
In the wake of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's announcement Tuesday that vocabulary questions will now be included in the Bee, quiz yourself on sample questions here.
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New York Times: Vocabulary.com Signals "Real Progress" in Online Learning
Times says sites shows that "the other potential of computing in education is less about reach than depth.
The New York Times today praised Vocabulary.com as a sign that "real progress is finally being made in computer-assisted education."
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Jonathon Owen is a copy editor and student of linguistics who "holds the paradoxical view that it's possible to be a prescriptivist and descriptivist simultaneously." Here, he looks at how people can get tripped up on words with unusual plural forms like phenomena.
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Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 10, 2013
Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 10, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 10, 2013. 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.
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