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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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Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and new
Clean Eating, Horse Cookies, and Other New York Values
Another roundup of euphemisms, including one from the presidential debates.
As most word-watchers predicted, the American Dialect Society picked Netflix and chill as 2015's Most Euphemistic term. It was an obvious and strong choice, even though it makes me want to Netflix and take my own life at this point.
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They're different, but when these words are said out loud it's hard to tell them apart. A parody is a silly spoof and parity is equality, and that's no joke.
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If you're pragmatic, you're practical. You're living in the real world, wearing comfortable shoes. If you're dogmatic, you follow the rules. You're living in the world you want, and acting a little stuck up about it.
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Both words relate to teaching, but didactic teaches a lesson and pedantic just shows off the facts.
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