QUIZ: There are hundreds of tricky words within the English language but do you know the meanings of all of them? These eight wacky words may stump you. A new online quiz asks people whether or not ...

In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German. Pour yourself a cold one and take the quiz. Prost! (That’s “cheers” in ...

As anyone trying to learn it will tell you, the English language is tricky to master. Not only do some words sound the same or have different meanings, but words come and go all the time too. An old ...

More than 170,000 words are currently used in the English language, so it’s almost impossible to know them all. We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of obscure ...

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level. Subject: FIRST NAMES THAT ARE WORDS Each ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. Christie’s International Ltd., based in London, is about to start operations in New York ...

One Word Substitution means using a single word to replace a long phrase or sentence without changing its original meaning. It helps make communication more clear, concise, and effective. These ...

It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...