If you know what these 10 words mean without reaching for your phone, you've got better vocabulary retention than most people. Not because these words are impossible—but because a lot of smart people ...

Word of the Day: Over 2 million English words exist, yet “sartorial meaning” is trending in Google search this year. Readers ...

Thanks to the evolution of language, technology, and lots of hyperbole, these words used to convey a lot more merit, emotion, or simply seriousness than they do nowadays. Ah, “genius.” Once reserved ...

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 ...

Word of the Day: Quiddity meaning is the essential nature of something. It answers the question, what makes a thing what it ...

For the late 90s and early 2000s people like myself, Gen Z language is either cringy or incomprehensible. Instead of simply saying, "I disagree with you," a Gen Z kid will probably say something more ...

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 ...

The brain glitch can help us understand how we perceive the world. While this may have felt like a sort of cognitive processing glitch, some scientists, such as cognitive neuroscientist David Huber ...

Nicholas Bagley is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan. Portions of this post appeared in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. With its decision in King v. Burwell, the Supreme ...