The word “incandescent” is an adjective with two meanings. The first meaning describes something that emits light as its ...

In an age of polarized debates and dug-in opinions, obdurate feels more relevant than ever. It’s the word that captures our cultural stalemates: firm, unmovable, sometimes admirable and often ...

One of the most lucid and delightful books I've read about writing is Lucille Vaughan Payne's "The Lively Art of Writing." The slim volume, which I discovered many years ago when I was still very self ...

Lemmatization is the process of grouping together the inflected forms of a word so they can be analysed as a single item, identified by the word's lemma, or dictionary form. Unlike stemming, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

Adjectives: how to describe people, places and things in Spanish. We use adjectives to describe things. In Spanish, adjectives usually go after the noun. A tall boy would be un chico alto. The gender ...

For He has looked upon His handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is His name. Luke 1:48-49 The doctrine of the ...

The Los Angeles Lakers today announced JJ Redick as head coach. Redick becomes the 29th head coach in franchise history and the 25th of the Los Angeles era. A press conference to introduce Coach ...