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While automatized vocabulary knowledge has been shown to strongly predict general listening ability, its role in speech production remains unknown. Now, researchers have compared conscious recognition ...

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1. Fair Warning: Only People With A Super IQ Of 135+ Will Know All These Words' Definitions This quiz is very straightforward ...

In last week’s column, I explained how word meanings can be generated from prefixes, roots, and suffixes. The best book using ...

If that all made sense (though it may be a bit dated), you might enjoy the Dictionary of Canadianisms from UBC. The Vancouver university has released a third edition of the project (which was ...

I don't mind that my son uses slang. He loves when I ask him what a word means, and it gives us something to connect over ...

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Most of us have felt happy, angry, nervous, or just down at some point. We also know what these simple words mean. Well, what ...

Experts decode some of the most frequently-used acronyms kids are using over text, and discuss the specific ones that should ...