In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German.

This word has appeared in 29 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many ...

You are among the top 2% of people with high IQ if you can guess the word correctly in this brain teaser puzzle in 4 seconds.

Brain teasers are an excellent way to test how fast your brain works. In this brain teaser, only readers with high IQs can ...

See if you can determine when these words first appeared in print, per the Oxford English Dictionary, in the quiz below. If dating words seems like a daunting task, it was. The first edition of ...

The OED says that these words “may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use”. But do you know their meaning? Take our quiz and find out.

The quiz below tests your knowledge of those and ... Many entries are misles: terms whose spelling leaves room for confusion. Some words lend themselves to oral errors simply because they remind ...

To give you a taste of the competition, we’ve selected eight words that are either tricky to spell or whose meaning is obscure for our own spelling quiz. How well can you do? And before you begi ...

Take this short quiz. (Illustration by Roche Cruchon for ... But your initial reaction can make a big difference. Your words matter. How you respond to someone who has been the victim of a fraud ...