Have you ever come across a word that you were sure meant one thing, only to find out it means something completely different? Welcome to the world of confusing English, where there are many words ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume. We’re all familiar with the onomatopoeia—a word that phonetically ...

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The English language contains over 200,000 words, drawing from Germanic, Latin, Greek, and over 350 other language roots. New words get added to English every year. (For instance, here are 30 words ...

How good is your vocabulary? It might be pretty good, and yet there are almost certainly some words, perhaps many words, that you’re using incorrectly because most people do. To pick out some of the ...

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