In honor of Oktoberfest, the annual German beer festival, we’ve got some fresh words on tap that came to English from German.

This word has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many ...

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The OED says that these words “may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use”. But do you know their meaning? Take our quiz and find out.

To give you a taste of the competition, we’ve selected eight words that are either tricky to spell or whose meaning is obscure for our own spelling quiz. How well can you do? And before you begi ...