Just in time for the release of The Great Gatsby film this weekend, learn vocabulary from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel with five new vocabulary lists.Continue reading...
Last night, Vocabulary.com executive producer Ben Zimmer and director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis hosted the weekly #engchat session, with a focus on fresh approaches to vocabulary instruction. Teachers shared resources, inspiration, and strategy.Continue reading...
Vocabulary.com will serve on the judging panel of The New York Times Learning Network's Summer Reading Contest for 2013. We are pleased to join what the Learning Network is calling "a powerhouse panel of...young-adult literary organizations."Continue reading...
To wave is to move to and fro, like when you wave your hand. Hello there! To waive, with a sneaky "i," is to give up your right to do something.Continue reading...
In an essay on writing in last week's The New Yorker, John McPhee describes drawing boxes around "perfectly O.K." words in a search for the "mot juste." Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf tells us words are a messy tangle that will always elude our best efforts to tie them down.Continue reading...
An Inside Higher Ed article recently quoted Duke University physics professor Steffen Bass as describing the foolish stance of some of his colleagues as "bologna." Prof. Bass surely said baloney, a spelling that represents an Americanized pronunciation of bologna sausage, and it also came to mean "nonsense" in the 1920s.Continue reading...