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Here’s the lowdown on why certain words are not in the dictionary and how they got removed. If you, too, have been left puzzled by words not in the dictionary—even ... or not). Read on to ...

JGI/Jamie Grill/Tetra Images/Getty Images Sometimes there are words that you’ve seen, read, and maybe even used in conversation whose meaning ... their opposite or have come to have connotations ...

Getting older comes with a lot of side effects from going to bed before 10 p.m. to not being hip (see below) to words ... (read attractive) people . A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or ...

We recognize words as pictures As your eyes scan these words, your brain seems to derive their meaning ... they read, which was generated well before they spoke and even when they were not ...

When we hear a word, e.g. "cat", our brain has to follow it very accurately in time to be able to understand its meaning". As a contrast, time-locking was not ... However, even responses to human-made ...

Even James once recommended reading ... meaning of the components of the word. So Strether is saying that while he intends sincerity, he doesn’t trust his own instincts, and thus he is perhaps ...

BABIES COME into the world seeking out comfort, so their first word is often “mama ... death may sound like a hard read. Instead, it is a beautiful and even strangely comforting one, with ...

It is over 40 years since the publication of James Boyd White’s When Words Lose Their Meaning. Although the precise year was 1984, Orwell and his Ministry of Truth are not the subject ...