Test your knowledge of British and American English! Learn the different words for everyday objects, like zucchini/courgette, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graduating seniors can throw their flash cards on the celebratory bonfire next year. When students sit down to try their pencils at the redesigned SAT in spring 2016, the questions about vocabulary ...

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: ...

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 ...