Allegory is another of the advanced English words that smart people use to show how educated they are. It's most commonly ...

The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana ...

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a press conference after he and other U.S. senators met with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, at the presidential ...

Microsoft Word now saves files to the cloud automatically. AutoSave has been around for a while, but until recently it was an opt-in feature. Now, anything you create in Word will be saved to the ...

An American diplomat who is a close friend of Donald Trump has apologized after labelling reporters “animalistic” during a “firestorm” news conference in Lebanon that left local media outraged. Tom ...

Liberals are different from you and me. They have more gobbledygook. Their pretentious vocabulary is what’s keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared ...

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to make your mind stretch and smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think beyond the ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

Microsoft will start saving new Word documents to the cloud before you hit save. Here's how to turn that off. Microsoft is changing the way Word documents are saved in Windows. "Now you don’t have to ...

What is word stress and how do we use it? In words with more than one syllable, there’s usually at least one syllable that sounds clearer or more obvious. Maybe it’s stronger, louder or higher. For ...