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Articles from 2018
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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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of Reduplication
These days we need all the levity, lunar or otherwise, that we can get. This lexical lunacy is a flimsy excuse for me to write about my favorite type of word: the reduplication. From ack-ack to zip-zap, reduplicative words are silly, childish, catchy, animalistic, nonsensical, and awesome.
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These chaos-describing words have, for the most part, a violent pedigree. Today's "ruckus" was likely a deadly event in the days of yore. We dive into a disorderly group of words that are appropriate for discussing both petty and primordial pandemonium.
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
Mulligan Day is Do-over Day
The Lingo of the Second Chance
We like the idea of giving someone another shot so much that we thought we'd explore the language of getting things right.
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We all make mistakes, big and little, and there's a large vocabulary of adjectives for when you messed up and you know it. Here's your chance to atone for your shameful vocabulary.
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Announcements
Eagles Eke Out New Words-mastered Record in September Stunner
Expect Colossal Competition in '18 - '19 Vocab Bowl
Until last month, holding the monthly words-mastered record was a feat that even the illustrious Etiwanda Eagles could not claim. Not any more. The real shocker? It was still preseason play.
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