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We give you an obscure word with four definitions-one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...
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The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...
Cambridge Dictionary has added thousands of words and phrases over the past 12 months, including ones popularized by social ...
It’s certainly oddly fitting that the fear of long words is named with one of the longest words in the English language: ...
New Zeland politician Stuart Nash, who is a former government minister, sparked outrage and disbelief with a sexist remark ...
Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...
The latest update comes as new research from Amazon revealed that nearly 80 per cent of Irish people use their uniquely Irish ...