GED Preparation

The General Education Development (GED) exams is an equivalency test for those who have been unable to receive an official high school diploma, but wish to show their proficiency of high school skills and knowledge. Last year, almost 900,000 people in the United States took the GED test in hopes of improving their choices for [...]

Language Arts Vocabulary

Language Arts Vocabulary Some of the most difficult words to learn, especially for those whom English is not their native language, are the non-standard words. Often teachers refer to these as the “exceptions”, because they don’t follow simple phonetic structure or they don’t follow generalized spelling rules. The English language is full of these type [...]

Social Studies Vocabulary

Social Studies is a subject that students seem to study from kindergarten to graduation. Which makes sense, because when you boil it down, social studies is simply the study of human interactions from the past to the present. It is difficult to study any subject without somehow involving human interactions, so social studies is naturally [...]

Words in HOCSA (chaos)

In our lives, we often prefer order and peace, but in our words…we love chaos. Americans seem to adore mixing their letters up and sorting them out again. Maybe our brains just like putting things in their proper place. (If you could see my son’s bedroom, you would know that theory is a wash) Anyway, [...]