July Round-Up

3 Word Lists for July

This month's English vocabulary lists were words ending in ‘ary’, portmanteau words to celebrate Alice’s Day, and summer-holiday spellings. Have you tried our Summer Spelling game?
Word for Wednesday

July 2 marked Alice’s Day: a festival of all things Alice in Wonderland. To celebrate, we also chose portmanteau words as our Word for Wednesday theme for July.

A portmanteau word is made up of two or more existing words that have been blended together. The term was coined by Lewis Carrol in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

Learn more about the words blog, brunch, escalator, and frenemy.
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