Tag: vocabulary
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Playing Dictionary
When I was a teenager I was introduced to a fun game at a youth event. Dictionary consisted of breaking up a group into teams. Each team would be given a word from a dictionary that no one in the group knew the definition for. Only one team would have the definition, and all the…
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Blast from the Past: Sheer Twaddle
Originally posted in July 2013 When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how…
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Sheer Twaddle
When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how to write for children. After…