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With the Wordsmyth Vocabulary Center activities, you can study the words of the week, play games with them, and assess your knowledge of their meanings with a quiz. Go to the Vocabulary…

noun a group of related lines in a poem that are separated typographically from other similar groups and that often have a regular meter and rhyme scheme.The poem is composed of three…

noun a false statement or statements made to hurt someone’s reputation, or the act of making such statements.I can’t believe the newspaper published that slander. See the full entry

noun a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and…

noun the process or act of finding a person guilty of a crime or misdemeanor.The prosecution was unable to present enough evidence to bring about a conviction in the case. See the…