Every time I work on a new screenplay, I get sidetracked looking for the perfect way to describe the win or the rain or a gunshot or anything else. So I finally broke down and made a huge list of ...

Some of the below terms may be unfamiliar to you now, but they all carry pretty common definitions, per Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com and Oxford Languages. So the words are exceedingly easy to add ...

Ideophones, or words that sound like what they mean—words whose sound evokes the sensory experience they describe, like swish or twinkle—are easier to learn than other words, a new study finds. The ...