Here's an old word for our new world: kakistocracy. From the Greek, it means "government by the worst men in the state" ...

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On Wednesday, the language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group (TCG) released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in ...