Even if you can pronounce them, some fancy words may make you sound pompous if you’re not comfortable with them. Others will make you sound like you’re trying too hard to seem smart, which is the ...

150 Big Words That Will Make You Sound Fancy and Smart—and What They Mean first appeared on Parade on May 30, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on May 30, 2025, where it first appeared ...

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 ...

150 Big Words That Will Make You Sound Fancy and Smart—and What They Mean originally appeared on Parade. By age 20, the average American will have learned around 42,000 words. But that knowledge doesn ...

Mindfulness is, I think, a rather lovely word, pleasant to pronounce and has been in the air more and more the past few years. It begins with the Mmmm sound that is sort of like Ommmmm, creating a ...

How happy I am to see the return of Meghan Cox Gurdon, the source of many library checkouts and gift books for my grandkids. Her op-ed regarding the recent deaths of her parents (“Simple Condolences ...