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Articles from February, 2016
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Education Talk Radio Shines a Spotlight on Vocabulary.com
A freewheeling chat about how vocabulary instruction is being transformed.
Yesterday, Vocabulary.com's director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis joined Larry Jacobs, host of Education Talk Radio, to talk about how Vocabulary.com is making a difference for students around the country.
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Journey to the Center of a Metaphor
Why do so many people talk about going on "journeys" these days?
Over the last 35 or so years, journey has become one of our culture's dominant metaphors, a handy stand-in for experience, ordeal, process, test, investigation, story, and series of events.
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Announcements
The January Vocabulary Bowl Top 20 Roundup is Live!
What does it take to be Number 1? Our vocab-casters report.
Following last month's SportsCenter-style Vocab Bowl Top 20 Roundup, vocab-casters Chris Strausser and Cayman Lowe bring the same excitement to Vocab Bowl-watching for January.
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As the United States celebrates Presidents' Day, it's a good time to mull over how we ended up calling the national leader "president" in the first place. Executive editor Ben Zimmer spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about the term's history.
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Dept. of Word Lists
Valentine's Vocab: Want to Know What Love Is?
Follow the path of "philos" and "amor" to find out.
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, now is the time to brush up on words to impress your sweetheart, or simply boost your vocab with some love-related words.
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Dept. of Word Lists
What Makes Vocabulary "Presidential"?
Celebrate Presidents' Day by looking at how presidents use words.
Teachers, commemorate Presidents' Day this year by looking through some of the great lists we have to explore the vocabulary choices made by presidents throughout history. These lists can bring your students closer to the words that shape current events or times gone by.
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Behind the DictionaryLexicographers Talk About Language
It's an Adjective! It's an Adverb! It's "Super"!
Are you super curious about how the word "super" gets used these days?
With what advertisers are coyly calling the "big game" looming this weekend, I decided it was time to follow up on a feeling that had been growing on me for a while: That I was hearing more and more people using super as an intensifier for adjectives, as in "I'm super excited!"
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