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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...

Improving vocabulary

Vocabulary from the Novel “Little Bee”

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 7 Comments

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 ...

Improving vocabulary

My fun new word: “Ersatz”

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 12 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

Rosetta Stone: More Than a Language Learning Tool

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 10 Comments

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...

Improving vocabulary

July Vocabulary Review: Olympic Size!

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Julia Tomiak / 8 Comments

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...

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