Welcome, wordsmiths and language lovers!📚You may think you have an impressive vocabulary, but it’s about time to put that ...

Many people loathe “big words”. Why say “subsequent” when “next” does the trick, right? Well, it could be argued that those ...

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Can you master the vocabulary section of the Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminary test? Vocabulary accounts for 50 percent of a speller’s total score on the test, which determines who goes to the ...

On end-of-the-year surveys, my English students generally ranked vocabulary assessments as the bane of their existence. A typical student averaged way too many hours studying for a quiz that generally ...