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Articles from November, 2018
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If a Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...
Take a Peek at How We Decorate at Vocabulary.com
Ta-dah! Here's a peek at our new photo gallery wall. We couldn't have done it without you — literally.
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In the American West, wildfires have become both more frequent and more destructive. With this ominous shift has come a new vocabulary for describing fire and its outcome – and new attention to some of the oldest words in our language.
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Tips & Tricks
National Book Awards Announced
Pair the Best New Literature with Our Ready-Made Resources
Our vocabulary lists for each of the 2018 National Book Award finalists will help you and your students get the most out of these diverse titles.
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You're familiar with canine and feline, but there's a marvelous menagerie of animal adjectives (Anserine! Piscine! Vulpine!) that we don't want to wind up on the endangered vocab list and disappear forever. So do your part: learn them and use them, either literally or metaphorically.
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Announcements
Vocab Bowl Begins, Blows Away Expectations
Watch the October Middle & High School Roundup Videos
The first month of the 2018-19 Vocabulary Bowl went down as the biggest season-opener ever. Find out which schools cracked the Top 10 in their divisions and watch our shout-outs to some of the upstarts and underdogs across North America.
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