There are lots of reasons why you might come across words that you don't know the meaning of. Language has changed over time, so older texts might contain unfamiliar words that are no longer commonly ...

Dogs have the ability to distinguish vocabulary words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a new study reports. Attila Andics et al. note that ...

100 Must-Know Vocabulary Words for Students: The first steps towards being a PRO English writer and speaker are to learn the vocabulary. For students, learning English vocabulary is not only about ...

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After my cancer diagnosis, I was thrust into a world where I rarely understood what was happening to me. An easy-to-understand “cancer vocabulary” would have surely eased my confusions. How do you ...

As AI advances beyond human understanding, our current vocabulary is inadequate to grasp how it works. We need neologisms—new words that capture concepts we want to teach machines or need to learn ...