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Ten Words from "NY Times" History - July 24, 1959
Ten Words from "NY Times" History - July 24, 1959
Learn Ten Words from New York Times History - The Kitchen Debate - July 24, 1959. 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: J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter"
Learn magical vocabulary from this classic
As you read J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, learn words like apothecary, cauldron, and warlock with three new lists from this timeless children's classic.
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Who Says Teens Don't Use Big Words?
NY Times Summer Reading Contest Winners prove them wrong
As judge last week for The Fourth Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest, we at Vocabulary.com were impressed by the ease and fluency with which teen writers used specific and powerful words.
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Edward Snowden's leaking of National Security Agency information has put the term whistleblower back in the news. Since the early 1970s, whistleblower has come to be seen as a positive term, but before that it had been decidedly negative for many decades.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Ann Hornaday for "Risibly"
A word to reach for when describing the ridiculous. Not so much the sublime.
In a Washington Post review of the recently released summer blockbuster "Pacific Rim," critic Ann Hornaday used the word risibly.
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Claire Hardaker, a linguist at Lancaster University in the U.K., recently published a survey of "trolling," i.e., "behavior of being deliberately antagonistic or offensive via computer-mediated communication (CMC), typically for amusement's sake." In the wake of the media attention her work has received, Hardaker considers the varying definitions people have for the word "troll."
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Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 17, 2013
Ten Words from "The NY Times" - July 17, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - July 17, 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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