Don’t ever feel less-than-brilliant if you need to look up a word or two in the dictionary from time to time.
Get this: Even our country’s Supreme Court Justices, those augustDefintion: respected, inspiring awe guys and gals in the flowing black robes, crack open the Oxford English dictionary and others when they’re not sure what a word means.
You might think they’d be looking up multi-syllabic mouthfuls. But, no, our preeminent legal authorities are parsing the meanings of ostensibly tricky words like “now,” “if” and “of.”
It’s true that one dictionary’s definition is not exactly the same as the next one’s. But we’re wagering that the meanings didn’t vary that much.
So tell us, esteemed cool-word watcher, what’s the last word you looked up?


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