Category: Vocabulary

Approximately 430 million people speak English as their first language. More than half of these (255 million) live in the United States, followed by some...

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In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission, in accordance with one’s moral...

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The Spanish people, or Spaniards ( ) are a nation and ethnic group native to Spain that share a common Spanish culture and speak the...

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Poultry farming is the raising of domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese, for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for food....

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A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a...

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Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis, for example, rhetoric and semantics. Literal language involves words that conform exactly...

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A subpoena (also subpœna) is a writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of...

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An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called “readers”),...

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A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for...

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