In 1994, while Garg was a Case Western Reserve student, he started a simple mailing list of one interesting word a day, beginning at the end of the alphabet with "zephyr," which means a gentle breeze.

Two seemingly unrelated words are making headlines this week: tariffs and ghibli.The first follows sweeping trade legislation ...

Can you think of alternative words that you could use for each – words that are more precise, lively or interesting? Consider what the reader should feel about the place, person or topic that ...