Vocabulary.com Blog
Articles from 2016
Fake mobsters in suits and spats are pretentious. But a horse head in your bed? That's portentous. And also, call the police.
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Fictional, fictive, and fictitious all branch off the "fiction" tree, but fictional is literary, fictive is specific, and fictitious is just plain fake.
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The word facetious describes something you don't take seriously. Remove the middle "e," and factious describes a dissenting group. And finally there's fatuous, which is a fancy way to say dumb.
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Success Stories
Maryland's Buck Lodge Middle School Makes Dramatic Lexile Gains
School's big boost in test scores inspires district-wide literacy efforts.
When Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, MD used Vocabulary.com to improve its lexile scores, their success inspired a district-wide adoption among Title 1 schools to achieve literacy goals.
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Success Stories
Zanesville High School Focuses on Vocabulary to Close the Achievement Gap
Teachers say the "more nuanced" and "in depth" approach is already paying off.
Follow the story of an Ohio high school addressing reading deficits behind the achievement gap with a targeted vocab intervention using Vocabulary.com. Students are having fun with the game and teachers love the progress they are making.
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Nearly 800 witty entries from around the world made judging this year's Vocabulary Video Contest harder than ever.
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Announcements
Check Out the February Vocabulary Bowl Top 20 Roundup
The winner of the monthly school leaderboard came down to the wire.
It's time once again for our monthly installment of the Vocabulary Bowl Top 20 Roundup, our SportsCenter-style broadcast recognizing the schools around the country that have come out on top of the Vocab Bowl leaderboards.
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