Farai Chideya talks with John Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster, about the top 10 words users looked up on the company's online dictionary this year. They included "integrity ...

No. 10 on the list is "inept," a word that Morse said was getting a lot of attention in the days after President Bush delivered a live prime time news conference that came to an awkward end when ...

Almost everyone has used the word "integrity," but many people do not understand what it means. Most people understand it to be synonymous with "honesty," but integrity actually means more than ...

Neither of these idioms suggest that words do not matter, or that what we believe is not important, but that integrity in word and deed is crucial. Pope Francis and the season of Lent.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — In a year filled with political wrangling, natural disasters and pop culture curiosities, Americans turned to Merriam-Webster to help define it all.