When New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley used lugubrious to describe AMC's "Breaking Bad," she embedded a context clue that makes her sentence an SAT question writer's dream.Continue reading...
We were thrilled to read an interview in which Drew Barrymore talks about how she "fell in love with the dictionary." Turns out, she's as into words as we are, and her favorite is the little-known "empyrean."Continue reading...
In writing about the President's recent missteps, Politico described the state of the presidency as parlous. Why parlous? Why now? And what does this have to do with International Talk Like a Pirate Day?Continue reading...