She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

He read it quickly. Then he put it in his pocket and ran out of the room without saying a word.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Soon,people began to use the word hedging to describe steps that could be taken to protect against financial loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Bits of paper called "confetti" are often used at parties, so Hailey chose a festive word for her festive music.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

In eighteen ninety-seven,the word came to mean the huge groups of people running or stampeding to Alaska and the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

We give the last word to Jamar, the high school student from New Jersey, and his hopes for two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

And so we can thank the American buffalo that once wondered the open plains for this meaning of the word buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17