{"id":166632067,"date":"2009-12-10T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T10:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/new-vocabulary-lists-for-books"},"modified":"2009-12-10T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T10:13:37","slug":"new-vocabulary-lists-for-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/new-vocabulary-lists-for-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vocabulary Lists for Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumb887oldbookbindingsjpg800pxoldbookbindingsjpg_lbqcaoalaamfsro-scaled10001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Media_httpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumb887oldbookbindingsjpg800pxoldbookbindingsjpg_lbqcaoalaamfsro\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/media_httpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthumb887oldbookbindingsjpg800pxoldbookbindingsjpg_lbqcaoalaamfsro-scaled10001.jpg?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/>Sometimes I run across words that I don&#039;t know. \u00a0For example I just ran across the word\u00a0parsimonious in a book. It means frugal to the point of stinginess. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>I have an idea. \u00a0I think that all books should have a link to a\u00a0vocabulary\u00a0test website.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>You take the test once before you read the book. \u00a0The words tested on include a lot of words that could be new in the book as determined by running the text of the book through a program that compares the words against a\u00a0catalogue\u00a0of the most commonly used english words. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Then, after you have read the book and encountered the words in context, you could take the test again and compare your score. \u00a0<br \/>This score improvement could be tweeted out. \u00a0For example &quot;I just increased my vocab test score %35 by reading\u00a0The Shack\u00a0by\u00a0William P. Young.&quot;<\/div>\n<div>This would help students, make books a little more viral, and increase peoples vocabulary! \u00a0You could even offer a coupon for a different book by the author or publisher upon successful completion of the test.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I run across words that I don&#8217;t know. For example I just ran across the word parsimonious in a book. It means frugal to the point of stinginess. I have an idea. I think that all books should have a link to a vocabulary test website. You &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166632067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166632067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166632067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166632067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}