Kerileanne99 Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Does anybody subscribe to a good source? Dd really, really loves words at the moment. When it first became a 'thing' for her I stumbled upon dictionary.com and their emailed word of the day. Every.single.morning she wants to know the new word, but their words are exceptionally hit and miss. She specifically does not want 'kid words,' whatever that means, but I am also looking for interesting and useful. Today's word was 'argy-bargy' and whilst that amused my Scotland-born hubby greatly, is not really what dd is looking for. It has become a fun thing for our family to do at breakfast, and we try to use the word throughout the day and thereafter...but need a better source! We need only emailed daily sources as well, as extra prep from me would fall into the 'rarely happen' column:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Maybe try wordsmith.org or word think? You have my sympathies...DS didn't need it every single day but he did need words that had more than two consonants in a row and then increased that to more than three. Oxymoron and yacht just weren't that interesting any more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Wordsmith.org has a word a day for Monday through Friday. There's generally some sort of theme to the words for the week (last week's theme was eponyms). On the weekend they also send out "a compendium of feedback" on the words from the previous week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyGF Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Wordsmith.org. My parents told me about this - the only junk email they enjoy receiving. Emily 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Wonderful! Looks like Wordsmith.org is a favorite:) In addition to the words themselves, she likes to learn the roots and ties to history, so hopefully this will be a fun addition. It has become so much fun to do as a family, although we do get a lot of strange looks:) on Alex's last day of preschool this summer her teacher approached me after class and informed me that she had never had a 5-year old use 'loquacious' and 'penultimate' in the same sentence, lol. I wish I knew what that sentence was as dd couldn't remember😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I've been getting this: Sat words emailed each day Simple, no-frills, 5 words a day 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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