Some of the below terms may be unfamiliar to you now, but they all carry pretty common definitions, per Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com and Oxford Languages. So the words are exceedingly easy to add ...

We all want to sound intelligent when we speak, but sometimes trying too hard backfires. Certain phrases make people seem like they’re showing off rather than communicating clearly. When someone ...

Mindfulness is, I think, a rather lovely word, pleasant to pronounce and has been in the air more and more the past few years. It begins with the Mmmm sound that is sort of like Ommmmm, creating a ...

The thinking seemed to be that the more fancy words and complex sentence structures they could shoehorn into an essay, the greater their likelihood of getting an A. Much of my job consisted of ...

Building on O'Connor and Glasser's bestselling series, ultimate girly-girl Fancy Nancy makes vocabulary glamorous in this A–Z compendium (“That's fancy for collection†). As O'Connor explains in ...

In O'Connor's third, and most recent, book, children learn the meaning of exquisite, incandescent and azure. The book is called Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly. So, O'Connor teaches children a bit of ...