Vedanth Raju, a seventh grader from Aurora Quest K-8, reacts after spelling the championship word “fretum” in the 29th round ...

Lauren A. Merillana, 13, of Bethesda, Md., spells her word as she competes during the first preliminary round of the Scripps ...

Researchers from Ghent University designed a rapid-fire vocabulary test where users have to recognise real words from fakes – and it’s now been done a million times. Data from the test shows ...

Instead, the words that the SAT will highlight in vocabulary questions will be ... one-sentence question provides little context, so it tests knowledge of knowing a word’s definition, not ...

Major executives score higher in this English vocabulary test than any other selected group with which we have experimented. By the term ‘major executives’ is meant all individuals who ...

As the eminent psychologist John Carroll once observed, the verbal SAT is essentially a vocabulary test. So there’s a positive correlation between a student’s vocabulary size in grade 12, the ...