To bee, or not to bee, has now become a tougher question to answer -- even for whiz kid spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee has announced that it is changing the format of its annual ...

Have you ever wondered just how exceptional your vocabulary is? Well, this test will reveal all. How much are of a keen linguist are you, really? Every so often the internet likes to challenge itself ...

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As is now well-known, scores on “intelligence” tests rose strongly over the last few generations, world-wide—this is the “Flynn Effect.” One striking anomaly, however, appears in American data: ...

Ready for a test? A research study with an online vocabulary test for people in the Netherlands went viral after nationwide television coverage. In the weekend after the TV exposure, more than 300,000 ...

Developing good reading habits during childhood significantly benefits vocabulary in later life, according to a new study. Having analysed vocabulary test scores of 9,400 people at the ages of 10, 16 ...

As American kids head back to school, they’re likely to return home with an alien language their own parents may find befuddling. From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like “rizzler” and “skibidi” ...

It is important to build vocabulary, not only for banking exams but for other competitive exams as well. In order to understand clearly the meaning of any word in a given context requires practice and ...