Think you have a strong vocabulary? See how many of these common 8th grade reading words you can recognize when some of history's greatest authors use them.

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A new study has found that differences in vocabulary growth among grade school children of different socioeconomic statuses are likely related to differences in the process of word learning. The ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A new analysis of federal data that provide a deeper and more systematic look into students’ ability to understand the meaning of words in context than was ...