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CalendarEvents for Educators
Vocabulary.com @ TCCA
If you'll be in Houston for TCCA, stop by and see us and we'll show you how Vocabulary.com is helping Texas educators make immediate literacy gains
CalendarEvents for Educators
Vocabulary.com @ EdSurge Oakland Summit
Come see us in Oakland during the All Educator Day at the Silicon Valley Tech for Schools Summit
The periodic table of elements is an iconic image familiar to anyone with even the rudiments of education and it is perhaps one of the most successful visual representations of information ever conceived: it brings a high level of order to a field of knowledge that is too complex to organize in memory and it rewards study at every level.
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The 2016 Summer Olympics will begin this August. Learning some of the lingo of these sports can let you into the athlete's world just a little bit, even if you have terrible balance or can barely tread water.
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Dept. of Word Lists
Words Heard at the Democratic National Convention
Unity for All, Enmity for One: Donald Trump
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a stark contrast to the Republican Convention the week before. Here is an exploration of some of the more playful and interesting word choices.
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Dept. of Word Lists
Words heard at the Republican National Convention
A smackdown of forceful vocabulary
National party conventions are really about two things: painting the candidate you are supporting in the best possible light, and engaging in attacks on the opposition.
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Summer may be a time of relaxation and great beach reading, but here at Vocabulary.com, we've been hard at work. We love this time of year because it's the time when we get to roll out all of the great features we've been planning for and implementing throughout the school year.
That's why we're so excited to announce that the next major release of our website is rolling out today. What's new? Everything.
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