By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Some words feel alive, even when they are describing the dead. “Wraith” is one of those words. This short word is like a whisper yet carries power and can describe anything from a ghost of a person, ...

Ever heard someone waffle on an answer during a debate? There is an elegant word for that, and it is called “tergiversate.” It may be a mouthful of syllables, but its meaning can be as evasive as the ...

Word of the Year for 2025, and for those not up to speed on current slang, at least they have a place to look it up.

Ever caught a whiff of nostalgia that transported you back in time to an endless summer day? That’s the power of “redolent” — a word that evokes memory, scent and feeling all at once. But how did a ...

The numbers “six” and “seven” are sending kids into a frenzy as the viral phrase, which comes from a song by rapper Skrilla, takes over TikTok, even though Skrilla has admitted the phrase is ...