Why Isn’t October the Eighth Month of the Year?
How October came to be our 10th month instead of our 8th.
Category: Improving vocabulary
The Perfect Vocab Word for Banned Book Week: Expurgated
Last Week’s Quiz Winners Wow! I’m happy that so many word nerds turned up for last week’s vocabulary quiz! I had six winners! Yippee! (Next month, maybe I s...
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...
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...