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Articles from 2014
Since launching Vocabulary.com, we've been thrilled to see how the online word-learning system has grown by leaps and bounds, attracting millions of users (including over half a million registered users and students in more than 11,000 schools nationwide). As the premiere site for vocabulary learning, Vocabulary.com has received recognition from the likes of USA Today, the New York Times, and Time. And today we're excited to announce the next step in the evolution of Vocabulary.com: an app that brings the adaptive learning system and the powerful dictionary that supports it to the palm of your hands.
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Tips & Tricks
Teachers: Is There Invisible Vocabulary Learning at Your School?
Show students this short video on how to play for their school
What's the quickest way to get your school to show up on our daily and monthly leaderboards? Eliminate invisible play by checking that all your students have registered their accounts with your school.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out
"Maelstrom" Writ Large on Park Avenue Through July
Alice Aycock's Teaches Passersby a New Word
Anyone traveling New York City's Park Avenue this spring will have the chance to contemplate the meaning of the word maelstrom, thanks to a sculpture by artist Alice Aycock described by the The New York Times, as "a spiky assemblage of aluminum ribbons that stretches for some 70 feet."
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Decimate. Literally. Hopefully. These words, and others like them, provoke so much ire in some readers that they become troublesome to use. Critics feel that the writer is using the word in an unauthorized way, that it's being using to mean what it does not mean.
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Dept. of Word Lists
A Quick Current Events Quiz: A Flight Lost "En Route" and an "Alienated" "Electorate"
Follow this news story and others from a vocabularian's perspective
Follow this week's news coverage from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.
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Last week we rolled out some changes that affected how Vocabulary.com users can learn words from Vocabulary Lists. We've listened to devoted Vocabularians and have brought back the ability to practice a vocabulary list. You will also have the option of adding those words to your comprehensive Vocabulary.com learning program.
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Eleanor H. Porter's classic children's novel of 1913, Pollyanna, tells the story of a plucky orphan who makes a game out of finding the silver lining in any situation no matter how bad. The most famous vocabulary word was not one Porter used, but one coined by readers and fans. To be a pollyanna, or behave in a pollyannaish manner refers to people who try hard to think positively, even unrealistically so.
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