What you need to know about slop, 2025’s Word of the Year
Slop is everywhere on the internet. Here's an explanation and some warnings about this new digital concern.
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Election vocabulary: what you need to know about the term “incumbent”
Do you know where the word incumbent comes from? How about the Latin verb meaning "to lie down on." Crazy? Let the Word Nerd explain.
What I find helpful to remember the meaning of ambivalence
Here's what you need to know about the word ambivalence.
Fly your nerd flag with a fun word: palimpsest
Not only is palimpsest fun to say, it has a very interesting meaning. Learn a new word and show it off this weekend!
What is Justice?
Justice was Merriam Webster's Word of the Year for 2018, but what exactly does it mean? The Word Nerd explains...
What Were the Top Ten Words of 2017
In 2017, we looked up words like feminism, gaffe and syzygy. Know what these words mean?