Two great vocabulary sites

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Two great vocabulary sites

www.wordthink.com

www.wordspy.com

I was and is interested in vocabulary, it’s extremely essential to teach our students substantial vocabulary to express themselves.

You can find more about new words with definitions and examples from media.

Here are two bits from the site:

Surreptitious

Surreptitious [sur·rep·ti·tious] adj. Kept secret, particularly because it would not be approved of. “His surreptitious drug habit could land him in jail.

hashtag-friendly

adj. Of a word or phrase: short and memorable enough to be converted into a Twitter hashtag, possibly to the point of being dumbed-down or overly simplified.

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hashtag friendly

Examples

2015

Shorthand for “downtown Los Angeles,” DTLA has crept into the Angeleno lexicon over the last several years, a hashtag-friendly name that initially gained traction online and then bled into real life.

—Soumya Karlamangla, “In an emerging downtown, ‘DTLA’ makes a strong impression,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2015

2014

Even if that’s the case, networks can’t resist cloning anything that’s a hit on television, whether that’s shows or campaigns. Given the success of both #TGIT and #WCW, they’re all likely brainstorming hashtag-friendly campaigns in an effort to brand as many other nights of TV as possible.

—Jason Lynch, “After #TGIT and #WCW, 12 New TV Hashtag Campaigns We’d Like to See,” AdWeek, October 27, 2014