Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Countless books have been written on the various ways to edit. Today’s column describes one key step in whatever procedure you may choose: edit to weed useless words. As you review your first draft, ...