If you ever wanted to sound a little more impressive in a conversation, the Vocabulary smartphone app could help you.

Pompous Meaning and Definition: Imagine a person at a party who stands very tall and speaks in a loud, booming voice. They ...

Building on O'Connor and Glasser's bestselling series, ultimate girly-girl Fancy Nancy makes vocabulary glamorous in this A–Z compendium (“That's fancy for collection†). As O'Connor explains in ...

The thinking seemed to be that the more fancy words and complex sentence structures they could shoehorn into an essay, the greater their likelihood of getting an A. Much of my job consisted of ...