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What Does That Word Mean? Ask the Winners of the 12th Vocabulary Bowl.
Lament, assonance, terra cotta. These are just a few of the 4.6 million words learners mastered in Vocabulary.com's Spring 2025 Vocabulary Bowl, the world's largest academic contest. But it's not just ...
Rediscovering Universal Messages Through Music
A return to the past, to one's roots to rediscover - through the language of music - the universality of a message now lost ...
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Bayir Site Reveals Roman Military Presence Through Latin Inscriptions
AMMAN - The Roman army at its peak reached the north-western parts of modern day Saudi Arabia.The area between the Roman ...
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What Does That Word Mean? Ask the Winners of the 12th Vocabulary Bowl.
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lament, assonance, terra cotta. These are just a few of the 4.6 million words learners mastered in Vocabulary.com's Spring 2025 Vocabulary Bowl ...
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Southern Columbia vs. Montgomery
(buzzer beeps) Santino. - Rhyme. - No, we're looking for assonance. Assonance. Let's go to a toss up now in literature. In Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." School master ...
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What's a boomer shooter – and is it even the right term?
A boomer shooter is not a game that involves shooting baby boomers. It doesn't even refer to games played by boomers since ...
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Fieldnotes: Annie Christain’s “The Vanguards of Holography” and Caroline Harper New’s “A History of Half-Birds”
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...
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An Opera for an English Olympic Hero
Cycle Song—which McMillan calls his “Lal-aby”—provided endless possibilities for assonance. He is particularly pleased with having rhymed peloton with skeleton. “I’m aiming for magic r ...