It is unclear if we live in a particularly smart era, but we clearly live in a particularly "smart" era. That is, the usage of the word "smart" is far more common than ever before. We are told that a ...

In the world of effective communication, clarity, precision, and confidence are paramount. While vocabulary size often gets the spotlight, true linguistic prowess also lies in what you don't say, and ...

Microsoft deprecated the Smart Lookup feature in Word on January 1, 2025. This move was likely made to pave the way for ...

In your last casual chat with a coworker, you were left thinking, “Wow, I wish I could speak like that,” or even, “How on Earth does she even know so many intelligent words?!” Some of us are even self ...

There are different ways to be smart, as Harvard psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner proposed in 1983 with his theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner believed that there were 8 distinct types of ...

It’s not uncommon for people to assume the bigger the word, the smarter the person saying it is. Big words have a reputation for being used by only the most intelligent and professional individuals.

Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person suggested that I absolutely must give Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” a try. The pandemic ...