WORD LISTS

The Top 50 Word Lists Created by Visual Thesaurus Subscribers

WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1569/
Evolution (51 words)
December 23, 2008
By Ivete(New York, NY)
A word list for those learning about evolution in school
/sl-/ words (16 words)
November 6, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Slithery, slimy words beginning with /sl/.
Vocabulary words from Langston Hughes' poetry (8 words)
December 14, 2008
By Shannon R.(Brooklyn, NY)
Here are a few words that your students might find trick from the following poems by Langston Hughes: "April Rain Song," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"...
Crossword words (377 words)
July 17, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Words that are high-frequency in crosswords but low-frequency in everyday use. Read about "crosswordese" here:...
Declaration of Independence (VocabGrabber) (245 words)
May 6, 2009
By Ivete(New York, NY)
Lots of great vocab in the Declaration of Independence! Created using VocabGrabber from this page: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index...
Death of a Salesman (39 words)
January 19, 2009
By Shannon R.(Brooklyn, NY)
Potential vocabulary words from the play DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller.
"Infinite Jest" vocabulary (117 words)
July 20, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Some challenging words from "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace. More here: http://erasing.org/etc/ij_glossary/ It's Infinite Summer!...
WordMasters: Grade 5 Blue Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1564/
WordMasters: Grade 8 Blue Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1570/
Fruits (51 words)
January 28, 2010
By Ivete(New York, NY)
A list full of words relating to fruit!
WordMasters: Grade 5 Blue Division Jan-Feb '09 (25 words)
January 10, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1660/
WordMasters: Grade 6 Gold Division Jan-Feb '09 (25 words)
January 10, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1663/
WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Jan-Feb '09 (25 words)
January 10, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1664/
WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Jan-Feb '09 (25 words)
January 12, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1665/
WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '09 (25 words)
January 12, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1667/
Toni Morrison's "A Mercy" (20 words)
January 28, 2009
By Georgia S.
Here is a list of key vocabulary words from Toni Morrison's "A Mercy," a novel featured in the VT lesson "Figurative Language in Toni Morrison's 'A...
Darwin words (31 words)
February 16, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Words for which Charles Darwin provides the first known use, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. See:...
The Secret Life of Bees Word List (24 words)
February 19, 2009
By Shannon R.(Brooklyn, NY)
Here are a few of the many words that could be pulled out of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees for a vocabularly unit.See:...
Lake O'Hara, by J.E.H. MacDonald (18 words)
February 22, 2009
By easydreaming
Painting, Mountainous Scene, Group of Seven. The Canadian Landscape: "The country was beautiful in the 1920's - moody, silent and powerful, as well...
The Glass Menagerie (44 words)
March 30, 2009
By Shannon R.(Brooklyn, NY)
Vocab words pulled from Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie. This list accompanies my article in Teachers at Work: Tennessee's Finest:...
Obama Inaugural (37 words)
January 26, 2010
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Words from President Obama's inaugural address. List created with VocabGrabber: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
Obama's Address to Congress (32 words)
January 26, 2010
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
President Obama's Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Add...
Credit crisis vocabulary (33 words)
January 26, 2010
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Vocab from New York Times overview: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/ List created with...
Greek Words (105 words)
November 9, 2009
By Patricia P.(North Tonawanda, NY)
Greek words
Apollo 11 Mission (58 words)
January 26, 2010
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Vocabulary from Apollo 11. List created with VocabGrabber: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/ Text...
Loanwords from the Philippines (24 words)
August 4, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
Words borrowed from the languages of the Philippines into English.
Legal latinisms (178 words)
August 26, 2009
By Tyrus(Brooklyn, NY)
A (by no means exhaustive) list. Surprising how some of these have crept into common usage.
American "-or" words (36 words)
September 7, 2009
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
These words are spelled with "-our" in British English, but thanks to Noah Webster, Americans spell them with "-or." More here:...
5th Grade Academic Word List: Literacy/Language Arts (30 words)
January 13, 2010
By Vince P.(Colorado Springs, CO)
Academic Words
E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" (115 words)
January 25, 2010
By Ben Z.(New York, NY)
Vocabulary study list for E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web." List created with VocabGrabber http://www.vocabgrabber.com/.
George Orwell's "Animal Farm" (363 words)
January 25, 2010
By Ben Z.(New York, NY)
Vocabulary study list for George Orwell's "Animal Farm." List created with VocabGrabber http://www.vocabgrabber.com/.
Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" Chapters 29-43 (113 words)
January 25, 2010
By Ben Z.(New York, NY)
Vocabulary study list for Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" (Chapters 29-43). List created with VocabGrabber http://www.vocabgrabber.com/.
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" Chapters 1-12 (287 words)
January 25, 2010
By Ben Z.(New York, NY)
Vocabulary study list for Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" (Book I, Chapters 1-6; Book II, Chapters 1-6). List created with VocabGrabber...
Douglas Coupland's Microserfs (71 words)
February 5, 2010
By Ivete(New York, NY)
Vocabulary study guide for Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs"
John Knowles's A Separate Peace (79 words)
February 5, 2010
By Michael F.(Brooklyn, NY)
Words from A Separate Peace for study.
Something Like: Periods of Time (8 words)
February 14, 2010
By Janie P.
Look at the definitions of the words in Janie's list of "Periods of Time" and try to put them into a sequence from shortest period of time to longest...
But how do you really feel? (56 words)
February 24, 2010
By Clarissa B.
Awaiting word.
Genealogy Words (39 words)
By Karen H.
Give "family" a new meaning with these terms that are likely to be found while doing genealogical research! Some are legal terms likely to be found in...
-id and -or words (37 words)
By Wood F.
Words that end in -id and -or
Gilgamesh (20 words)
By Tony S.
Words from Stephen Mitchell's translation in order of appearance.
GRE Words (500 words)
December 9, 2009
By Marc Tinkler(New York, NY)
GRE study word list
Midsummer Dream (16 words)
May 23, 2008
By Jyoti
Words that pertain to the worlds of illusion created by writers for us, the dreamers.
Conservapedia (98 words)
September 22, 2008
By Dean S.
Words used on http://www.conservapedia.com/ Conservapedia is a clean and concise resource for those seeking the...
The Tell Tale Heart (15 words)
September 25, 2008
By Linda B.(Staunton, VA)
The story is written by Edgar A. Poe who used the vivid words to describe how he felt and how he saw.
WordMasters: Grade 4 Gold Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1563/
WordMasters: Grade 5 Gold Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1565/
WordMasters: Grade 6 Blue Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1566/
WordMasters: Grade 6 Gold Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1567/
WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Nov-Dec '08 (25 words)
October 28, 2008
By Ben Zimmer(New York, NY)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordmasters/1568/