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Is it wrong to use 'decimate' to mean 'destroy'?

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June 2017 Words of the Day Quiz

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Kim and Kanye Might Have Hired a Surrogate Mother

From TMZ to the dictionary.

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'Pride': The Word That Went From Vice to Strength

Do you take pride in Pride?

The True Story of the Backward Index

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There it sits, hidden in plain view on a set of shelves in the basement of the Merriam-Webster offices: the Backward Index. But why would anyone type out 315,000 words spelled in reverse?

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'Pride': The Word That Went From Vice to Strength

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Pink: The Color that Will Change Your Life

From Fuchsia to Baker-Miller Pink

That Sucks Word Alternatives

Your day is the worst. Your vocabulary is the best.

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'All the Feels,' All the Time

Once more, with 'feels'

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Yearbook Superlatives Quiz

Is that your picture under "Largest Vocabulary"?

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Test your visual vocabulary with our 10-question challenge!

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Build a chain of words by adding one letter at a time.

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