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Articles from July, 2013
High/low, yes/no, black/white. There's something reassuring about opposites. A lot of vocabulary teaching is done using pairs of opposites, and with good reason: learners really feel they have a handle on a concept if they grasp its antithesis. There are, however, some other concept families that are best learned using three terms — triples — that provide a middle ground which in turn enhances all three concepts.
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You'll find words you don't see every day woven into the tapestry of Isabel Allende's bestselling and critically-acclaimed The House of the Spirits. Learn them with five new interactive vocabulary lists drawn from the novel.
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The New York Times Learning Network has been running a Summer Reading Contest for students, and each week a different literacy organization judges the competition. This week, Vocabulary.com is honored to serve as the judge. Students, submit an entry and you could be a winner!
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Did you know that the Vocabulary.com Dictionary includes pronunciation? Watch this short video for a look at how this works.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Nick Paumgarten for "Jawboning"
Check out a sense of this word specific to financial/political spheres
In writing about Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten invoked a very specific sense of the verb jawbone.
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Last December I commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of what was then the first-known appearance of "Uncle Sam" as a personification of the United States, which turned up in a Bennington, Vermont newspaper. Now, just in time for the Fourth of July, comes new evidence that "Uncle Sam" was in use as early as 1810, more than two years before the phrase's popularization in the War of 1812.
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Celebrate July 4th With Gettysburg Address Vocabulary
Brush up on hallow, consecrate, and proposition as you honor the holiday and the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg with "Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address'."
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