by David and Tim Bayly on July 28, 2011 - 6:27pm
The New York Times has given the world a list of the fifty most looked-up words on their web site.
Here are the top ten:
- panegyric
- immiscible
- Manichean
- inveighs
- crepuscular
- legerdemain
- churlish
- risible
- anathema
- recognizance
Go beyond the jump to find the full list...
- panegyric
- immiscible
- Manichean
- inveighs
- crepuscular
- legerdemain
- churlish
- risible
- anathema
- recognizance
- omertà
- superannuated
- perfidy
- hauteur
- samizdat
- avuncular
- inchoate
- duplicitous
- perfunctory
- dyspeptic
- opprobrium
- cronyism
- anomie
- alacrity
- buttress
- dilettante
- insouciance
- exegesis
- hubris
- schadenfreude
- excoriated
- surfeit
- ascetic
- realpolitik
- unambiguous
- misdemeanor
- protean
- pariah
- quixotic
- Blasphemy
- brinkmanship
- incarcerated
- sanguine
- feckless
- quorum
- nascent
- austerity
- ebullient
- juggernaut
- ubiquitous
What about you? How many could you define and how many did you need to look up? And what word do you use that would be added to the list if you were a NYT writer? Personally, I'd show off by using the word "sesquipedalian". If I wrote for the NYT that would be my addition to the list.
(TB)
