As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

DOVER — Students at Dover Adult Learning Center are participating in Dover Reads in their own special way. The students in Kim Hanson's evening Adult Basic Education class read the book, 1000 Tracings ...

The closed-season school board meeting was called to order half an hour late by its chairman, J. Buckdancer Alcott, because the board members saw Windy Wilson sitting in the audience. Windy had no ...

Our lesson this week emphasizes alternative ways of saying things. Oftentimes, when we want to ask someone to get things done for us, we usually use the word ‘please’ to convey our request and to show ...

Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall vocabulary development, this study finds that students learning English as a second language pick up general vocabulary more quickly and target ...

On the page, you can learn words and phrases which came up in the lessons. Look at the "Vocabulary List", and check the meaning and correct pronunciation of each word or phrase. When you think you ...

Renee Montagne talks to Ben Zimmer, executive editor of Vocabulary.com, about some of the presidential and not so presidential words that came up during this week's Republican debate. DONALD TRUMP: I ...