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Articles from June, 2014
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Vocabulary.com Garners Two Prestigious Library Honors
The American Library Association's AASL and MARS sections recognize our Dictionary and teaching tools
At the American Library Association annual conference this week, Vocabulary.com was selected for two significant honors. We are proud to announce them here and to extend our heartfelt thanks to the reference and school librarians who nominated and reviewed Vocabulary.com.
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Visiting ISTE? We'll be there and would love a chance to chat with you about vocabulary learning, what you're doing in your classroom or school, and how we can help. Come by Booth #2855 to get a conversation started.
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Hard to Believe: "Innovation" Wasn't Always a Good Thing
When "make it new" meant "make it worse"
It's always interesting to learn about a word whose connotation has changed over time, especially when the change was radical. This is the story of innovation, and it turns out it's also the story of disruption, innovation's frequent pair. So what's next?
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Here's the latest in our series of tips on usage and style from the one and only Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty. What's the difference between facetious and sarcastic?
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"Paladin" Versus "Taffeta": The Gender Word War is On
How Gender Predicts What Words You're Likely to Know
Business Insider announced this week the results of a study by the Center for Reading Research on the relationship between gender and word recognition. Are there words more easily recognized by one gender or another?
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Behind the DictionaryLexicographers Talk About Language
"Tradecraft" Infiltrates the Language
How words with seemingly transparent meanings can settle into semantic idiosyncrasy.
Tradecraft, which has been spy jargon since at least the 1960s, has been making its way into more mainstream consciousness recently, as we hear about operations like the search for Osama bin Laden, or about Edward Snowden's training as a spy. It's a good example of how words with seemingly transparent meanings can settle into semantic idiosyncrasy through historical circumstance.
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Tasty MorselsGood stuff from Vocabulary.com
Fermi School Shows "Pizzazz" in Leaderboard Win
Vocabulary learning is key skill for these bilingual students, teachers say
When the fourth through eighth graders at Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts in Yonkers, NY swept the Vocabulary.com school leaderboard in May, their entire community stood up and took notice.
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