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Jun 15

50 most looked-up words on NYTimes.com

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meaghano:

I spent last night looking all of these up in the dictionary just to make sure my bases were covered. You may laugh, but who’s the one walking around without shibboleths integrated into their working vocabulary?

via wordjournal, bmichael:

  1. sui generis
  2. solipsistic
  3. louche
  4. laconic
  5. saturnine
  6. antediluvian
  7. epistemological
  8. shibboleths
  9. penury
  10. sumptuary
  11. schadenfreude
  12. peripatetic
  13. abstruse
  14. parlous
  15. enervating
  16. adenoidal
  17. feckless
  18. solipsism
  19. ersatz
  20. fealty
  21. sanguine
  22. sartorial
  23. hagiography
  24. pandemic
  25. hagiographic
  26. dauphin
  27. antebellum
  28. paroxysm
  29. risible
  30. interlocutor
  31. swine
  32. apotheosis
  33. comity
  34. Atreus
  35. banal
  36. profligacy
  37. Sisyphean
  38. inchoate
  39. apoplectic
  40. neologisms
  41. bildungsroman
  42. peroration
  43. fungible
  44. recondite
  45. bonobo
  46. phlogiston
  47. contretemps
  48. appurtenances
  49. glut
  50. fecklessness
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Source: bmichael

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    No joke, I’m about half way done. Look...and be gone with your
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    comments thread of this kind of article =/= youtube comments also, one of them has definitions for the words
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    Solipsism - the philosophical belief that one can only prove the existence of one’s own mind - is my favorite word.
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    freaking A. i’ll learn some of these later
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    Shibboleths? Is there going to be some sort...test or something? zing! More people had
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    see your point, would dearly love...elaborate further...must...
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    I love that “abstruse” is on this list. Most of these I only know because of AP English in high school. I’m sure of that...
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    words remind me of grad school and all my classmates who used them...appear smart. Maybe I...