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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 ...
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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AMMAN - The Roman army at its peak reached the north-western parts of modern day Saudi Arabia.The area between the Roman ...
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 ...
(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 ...
with more assonance and less chronological exactitude: “World Trade, second plane / What else do I have to say?” comes well after “Trump gets impeached twice / Polar bears got no ice,” but ...
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...
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 ...