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Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 31, 2013
Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 31, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - July 31, 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.
When I was in elementary school, and was being taught the difference between fact and opinion, I wondered how to classify statements like "There are 51 states in the United States." It wasn't true, so it wasn't a fact, but on the other hand, it didn't seem to involve the kind of judgment that we were learning to identify with opinions.
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List of the Week: Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"
Five new interactive word lists to accompany a classic novel
As you read Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning classic The God of Small Things, learn words like jettison, mesmerize, and pariah with five Vocabulary Lists drawn from the novel.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Sadiqa de Meijer for "Verdigris"
Because in poetry, "greenish-copperish" just won't do.
In a new poem, "Pastorals in the Atrium," which appeared in the most recent issue of Poetry Magazine, Canadian Sadiqa de Meijer uses the word verdigris in her opening stanza.
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On TIME Newsfeed, Katy Steinmetz wonders why Twitter has inspired "an army of fusion words," or portmanteaus — from "Twiplomacy" (Twitter diplomacy) to "Twitterati" (Twitter literati). Our own Ben Zimmer has some ideas.
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Much like the government, the English spelling system is a popular punching bag. People love to kvetch about its inconsistencies and exceptions, lamenting the near-impossible task of learning to spell.
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