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Improving vocabulary

The Perfect Vocab Word for Banned Book Week: Expurgated

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 14 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

Who’s Ready to Test Their Vocab Knowledge?

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 10 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

Why You Should Look Words Up: Confabulation

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 13 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

Why Obfuscation Is the Perfect Vocab Word for “Paper Towns”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 9 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

How John Green Can Improve Your Vocabulary

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 9 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

August Word Nerd Vocabulary Review

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 8 Comments

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...

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