"Outlaw," "scan," and "irregardless"... you're using them all wrong. People think it means: Someone who has broken the law. But it really means: A person excluded from protection of the law.

Two words are opposites if they have opposite meanings (such as HOT and COLD). Two words are secondary opposites if they can go before two regular opposites to form a familiar expression. Thus, RED ...

Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behavior was sanctioned.” Does that mean, “Because the agency oversaw the company’s behavior, they imposed a ...

Prefixes are a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the start. The prefix un- usually means 'not', so the new word means the opposite of the original. In this ...