Most words have a rather abstract connection to the things they describe. The word "yellow" is not actually yellow. The word "square" is not a square. Nor do we expect them to be. That's the way of ...

Effective communication is an essential skill for managers and employers. Using positive language to describe your team members is a powerful tool to show your support and admiration for their hard ...

The question “Describe yourself in 3 words” might seem simple, but it’s one of the most powerful tools in an interviewer’s arsenal. It gives employers a glimpse into your personality, self-awareness, ...

Players describe words on a card to other players in a party game that feels like charades but you can use words and you can make up your own rules called Describe Five (free with in app ...

DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: I was gobsmacked (a fun word too) to hear for the first time the word bafflegab, which means exactly what it sounds like. Unfortunately, there’s so much of it these days. –Cindy ...

Words are full of pulchritude, and while using such a term to describe words as beautiful might seem a bit supercilious and sesquipedalian in this day and age, the truth is that the dictionary holds ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. At around age six, I began collecting baseball cards. Almost immediately, I sorted the players on the cards into each of ...

Anyone can break down NBA teams using an infinite number of words, but few people are ready, willing and capable of encapsulating entire-squad performances using a single word. Fortunately, the PhD I ...

We're a week and a half into a 162-game season, so there's only so much anyone can say about each of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball. We can, however, try to say a lot by saying a little. Here's ...

Language has a remarkable way of capturing not just meaning but sensation. Some words seem to sound like what they describe, ...