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Articles from December, 2014
Looking to make your writing more vivid? Start with color! Here are more than 195 words to help you paint pictures in your readers' minds.
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When we announced our Second Annual 15-Second Video Contest, we were secretly worried we'd never get entries as enterprising as we did last year. Happily, however, all you have to do is watch the 10 winning videos embedded in this post to see that many of this year's 600-plus submissions met, if not exceeded, our previous standard.
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When potential tourist-carrying SpaceShipTwo crashed, resulting in one death, you just knew there would be some euphemisms to explain the disaster. The euph of choice was anomaly.
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Tips & Tricks
For Writers: Make Powerful Word Lists in Minutes
Spruce up your diction by making category lists
Writers live by their lists of words, and there is no better way to expand your personal arsenal than by building lists using the Advanced Search feature in our dictionary. Follow along as we make a list of 195 color words to learn how to use this powerful tool.
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Today is "Cyber Monday," the day that retailers have anointed as the kickoff of the online holiday shopping season. "Cyber Monday" is a recent coinage, going back to a 2005 press release. "Black Friday," on which "Cyber Monday" is modeled, goes back to the early 1960s, and some newly discovered evidence illuminates its early use.
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