Just weeks after we saw miscreant used to describe Chris Christie, we see it again in Sunday's New York Times, where writer William D. Cohan used it to describe the wolf of "The Wolf of Wall Street" fame, Jordan Belfort.Continue reading...
Follow news coverage of the Olympics, the minimum wage debate, and Ukraine from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.Continue reading...
Iowa super-librarian Shannon Miller recently posted on her blog about introducing Vocabulary.com to fifth and sixth graders through a webinar led by Vocabulary.com director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis. The verdict: Students were "Having Fun And Learning Lots Of New Words."Continue reading...
Look for Vocabulary pertaining to the other kind of Olympian? Check out five new vocabulary lists from the kid-favorite Rick Riordan series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.Continue reading...
Today is the federal observation of George Washington's birthday, also called Presidents' Day. Five years ago, an unfortunate typo was discovered in a quotation from Washington chiseled on the front of the New York State Supreme Courthouse. That typo still lingers today.Continue reading...
Presidents' speeches — and vocabulary choices — set the tone of their eras. Here at Vocabulary.com, we're in the business of preserving them through a series of lists drawn from some of the most well-known presidential speeches. Celebrate Presidents' Day today by trolling through the collection, or, for Presidents' Day purists, learn lists consisting exclusively of Washington's or Lincoln's words.Continue reading...
Online dating sites love to use Valentine's Day as an opportunity to talk about how people size up their potential romantic interests. And it turns out that an attention to grammar, particularly usage of the word "whom," just might help out men who would like to attract members of the opposite sex.Continue reading...