The Oxford English Dictionary defines transition as “the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. For example, ‘students in transition from one program to another.’” Our ...
By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...
The learned scholar despaired of his students. They cared nothing, it seemed to him, for real learning — all they wanted to do was find a way to pass their exams. He had come of age in an earlier time ...