My fun new word: “Ersatz”
My end of summer read has been Little Bee by Chris Cleave, which, thankfully, moves much faster than Great Expectations. Indeed, it contains tragic violence, p...
Category: Improving vocabulary
Rosetta Stone: More Than a Language Learning Tool
Last Week’s Winners First, thanks to all of you who participated in the “Olympic Size Vocab Review” last week! I got lots of great answers, w...
July Vocabulary Review: Olympic Size!
It’s the end of the month, time again to review the vocabulary that we’ve learned during the previous weeks! In honor of the Olympic games, this mon...
Improving Vocab on the Beach
Sunset at Camp of the Woods On a good afternoon at Camp of the Woods, the adults relax under the beach tent and read while the kids splash in the lake. During ...
More Vocab from Dickens
Whew! I finished Great Expectations, a major accomplishment for the summer! And in the end, I’m very pleased I took the time to keep plugging through, f...
Gidget Teaches Me Vocab
June Review winners First, thanks to everyone who participated in June’s Word Nerd VocabularyReview. Three ladies got all three questions correct! Congrats ...