Who’s Ready to Test Their Vocab Knowledge?
It’s that time again! As I walked the dog this morning, the frost on the grass sparkled in the light of the rising sun. Fall has arrived. So has cooler we...
Category: Improving vocabulary
Why You Should Look Words Up: Confabulation
Sometimes your gut instinct about a word’s meaning isn’t right, and you need to check the dictionary. Or Google. Salacious had tricked me a few weeks ago. Bas...
Why Obfuscation Is the Perfect Vocab Word for “Paper Towns”
John Green’s PaperTowns is about a boy named Quentin and his quest to find the girl of his dreams, Margo Roth Spiegleman. He already knows her; she lives next...
How John Green Can Improve Your Vocabulary
Last Week’s Winners Thank you to everyone who gave the August Vocabulary Review a try! The answers were: oleophobic = oil resistant, and Apple puts it on...
August Word Nerd Vocabulary Review
I can’t believe it! Summer is ending. But we’ve learned some great words with our beach reads, haven’t we? To prove it, you all are going t...
Vocabulary from the Novel “Little Bee”
I need help this week in the vocabulary department. I’m not saying that the great Chris Cleave incorrectly used a word, but I don’t understand how ...