10 Words With Difficult-to-Remember Meanings
Sometimes there are words that you've seen, read, and maybe even used in conversation whose meaning you can never keep straight.
Sometimes there are words that you've seen, read, and maybe even used in conversation whose meaning you can never keep straight.
Wilma Rudolph made history as a Black woman athlete at the 1960 Rome Olympics, becoming the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics.
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Why be boring when there are so many other ways to greet a person and forge a unique connection?
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The Oxford English Dictionary is here to help you learn the nuanced meaning of ‘deepfake.’
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Googling how to spell ‘restaurant’ is nothing to be ashamed of.
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From Austen to Dickens and beyond, famous authors have had no problem with using the word 'literally' in a figurative sense.
You may hear an "Erin go bragh" or two, but even on the most Irish of holidays, we don't hear much of the Irish language—which is a shame.
No, 'Cocaine Bear' did not make the list.
Venus Williams took the sports world by storm when she first arrived on the international stage as a teenage tennis phenom. She hasn't slowed down since.
Perfectly innocent Latin or Greekisms that just happen to sound like something else.
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Both Thelma and Louise made the list.
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