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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Henry Alford for "Abattoir"
A technical term with a rich history.
In "How I Became a Hipster," a New York Times account of a long weekend embedded "among the rooftop gardeners and the sustainability consultants and the chickeneers" of Brooklyn, humorist Henry Alford slips abattoir into conversation in an effort to pass as a local.
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Ten Words from The NY Times - May 15, 2013
Ten Words from The NY Times - May 15, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - May 15, 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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List of the Week: Toni Morrison Vocabulary
Learn words from "Sula" or "The Bluest Eye"
We've just added five new interactive lists of vocabulary from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
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Latest in Vocabulary-Learning Strategies? Puppies!
Preschoolers teach vocabulary words to new canine friends
In Indianapolis, IN where preschoolers reinforce vocabulary knowledge by reading and teaching vocabulary words. . .to puppies.
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With Baz Luhrmann's movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby arriving in theaters, this week has been full of Gatsby talk. Online commentators have been writing about words coined or popularized by Fitzgerald, the slang of the 1920s "flapper" era, and even the name Gatsby itself.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Kathryn Schulz for "Recrudescence"
A subtle way to call something "crud."
In the May 13 issue of New York Magazine, Kathryn Schulz introduced a critique of F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-beloved The Great Gatsby by referring to the current movie-driven Gatsby resurgence as a recrudescence:: "Since we find ourselves, as we cyclically do here, in the middle of another massive Gatsby recrudescence, allow me to file a minority report."
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There are all sorts of words in English based on the -onym word part, which derives from a Greek word that means name. Everyone knows about homonyms and synonyms, but what about retronyms, demonyms, and aptonyms?
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