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Stature of vocabulary

The way someone speaks reflects their confidence. However, clarity of meaning and message is equally important.When speakers or writers use difficult words, the real message is sometimes lost within ...
Go to this link from the New York Times and start guessing words. That's a topic we've covered a bunch here. According to the ...
Struggling with today's Wordle? Use our handy Wordle hint selection to help you, or learn the Wordle answer today with our ...
Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...
Humans ask what things mean. Animals move on. That difference explains both our brilliance and much of our psychological ...
Research shows that people with dementia often harness metaphor to communicate experiences in their desperate bids to remain ...
anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...
Did Wordle keep you busy this year? Some words are more challenging than others. INBOX -- the Wordle answer on April 19 -- ...
These words don’t mean what they once did centuries ago. In Shakespeare’s time, “cunning” simply meant clever or intellectually sharp, without any shady undertones. Today, calling someone cunning ...
How do words get their meanings? Why does the string of letters (and sounds) "d-o-g" mean "dog" and "c-a-t" mean "cat"? For the most part, meanings are conventions: A group of people (like speakers of ...
A single English verb carries more definitions than any other in the language. Lexicographers have confirmed that the word 'Run' holds 645 distinct meanings in the Oxford English Dictionary’s upcoming ...