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Articles from 2016
These two personality types are opposites — introverts focus inward, into their own thoughts, and extroverts focus outward, into the world. But don't get too excited; most people are a little bit of both.
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Whether You Can Make Words Mean So Many Things
Some deep thoughts on picking Words of the Year.
A time-honored ritual around the world at year's end is to nominate Words of the Year, originally inspired by TIME magazine's Person of the Year. But words can be much more different from each other than people are. People of the Year are normally distinguished by their great influence. Words of the Year bear myriad relationships to the things they represent and because of this, the ways in which they distinguish themselves are extremely divergent.
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Congrats to Lanier Middle School, December Vocabulary Bowl Champs!
Besting neighbor and Vocab Bowl frontrunner Chavez High, the "Purple Pups" mastered more than 30,000 words.
Lanier Middle School in Houston, TX celebrated their December win of the Vocabulary Bowl national leaderboard with a banner dedication ceremony. The ceremony included medals to the top performing five students, certificates for teachers, student speeches, raucous applause and cheering, and a feeling of excitement and victory all around.
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If you've been keeping your head down, just doing your job and paying the bills, it may have escaped your notice that we live in exciting times. Yes, really! We're excited about things! We're excited by things! We're excited to do things! And, increasingly, we're excited for things, events, and experiences.
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Step Aside, SportsCenter! Make Way for the Vocabulary Bowl Update
Introducing the Vocabulary Bowl "Top 20 Round Up" telecast.
We're introducing the monthly Vocabulary Bowl "Top 20 Round Up," in which our team of intrepid vocab-casters call out the achievements of middle and high schools making names for themselves on the national and state leaderboards.
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A hero is the firefighter who pulls you out of a burning car. The protagonist is the main character in the story you write about it.
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Anything objective sticks to the facts, but anything subjective has feelings. Objective and subjective are opposites. Objective: It is raining. Subjective: I love the rain!
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