Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences ...

It can be surprising to discover that the English language sometimes has pleasant surprises in words pronounced one way but meaning something entirely.

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 ...

Some words feel like small discoveries-unfamiliar yet instantly interesting. Pulchritudinous is such a word. It first appears ...