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Words Used by Nabokov Quiz

How familiar are you with Nabokov’s unfamiliar vocabulary?

9 Words from the Magical Realm

When language is magic

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Melania Trump Undergoes 'Embolization'

'the process by which a blood vessel or organ is obstructed by a material mass'

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Ghost Word

The story of an imaginary word that managed to sneak past our editors and enter the dictionary.

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'Ingenious' and 'Ingenuous': More Than a Typo

One's clever, the other's like a child

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