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Vocabulary

8 posts
8 festive books to help you learn English
6 min read 6 min

This holiday season, what better way to get into the Christmas spirit (and improve your English voca...

20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare invented
3 min read 3 min

William Shakespeare was an incredible writer and poet, but did you know he also single-handedly adde...

How to memorize new vocabulary faster: 9 tips
5 min read 5 min

No matter how good your grammar is, if you don’t know any words that you can use it with, you (liter...

10 Victorian slang terms to start using today
3 min read 3 min

Ah, the Victorian Era — a time of corsets, top hats, and strict societal rules. But did you know tha...

10 (more) weird words in English
4 min read 4 min

There are over 171,000 words in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Wi...

13 medieval words that are ripe for a comeback
3 min read 3 min

Middle English speakers certainly had a way with words. With dramatic flair and multicultural influe...

10 English slang terms you need to know in 2023
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As we well know by now, slang moves fast. 2022’s terms? Dead and gone. In their place, a whole new a...

7 English words that nobody uses anymore (but totally should)
2 min read 2 min

Rarely has a language been such a linguistic Frankenstein as English – it has stolen words from coun...