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50 most-looked up words on NYTimes.com

  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

(via:NYT)

I would say I knew off hand about 94%. You?

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    No joke, I’m about half way done. Look...and be gone with your
  5. graceyao reblogged this from thekeri and added:
    comments thread of this kind of article =/= youtube comments also, one of them has definitions for the words
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  7. thekeri reblogged this from jessicachu and added:
    Solipsism - the philosophical belief that one can only prove the existence of one’s own mind - is my favorite word.
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    Shibboleths? Is there going to be some sort...test or something? zing! More people had
  14. sismian reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    see your point, would dearly love...elaborate further...must...
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  16. whatawonderful reblogged this from bingoparaphernalia and added:
    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...
  17. scarletemily reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    words remind me of grad school and all my classmates who used them...appear smart. Maybe I...
  18. bingoparaphernalia reblogged this from caterpillarcowboy and added:
    The West Wing taught me the meaning of shibboleth. And I know all of these - except for phlogiston, but I’ve corrected...
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    some sort of Jewish monster that fought...Golem. Now I know!
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  23. haunted reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    feckless & fecklessness...English is really quite lovely, yes?
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  26. meaghano reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    I spent last night looking all of these up in the dictionary just to make sure my bases were covered. You may laugh, but...
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  28. izzaay reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    ‘cause I’m a word-lover this way. Must check again once back from OBBD.
  29. eclectically reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    4つしかわからない…
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    Oh, dear. This is lovely.
  37. nescio reblogged this from vaughn-on and added:
    Ooh, the answers!
  38. morematter reblogged this from fluffynotes and added:
    Love the “adenoidal”—wonder who that referred to most often.
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  41. icantgetanythingelse reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    I haven’t seen at least half of these words.
  42. samit reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    I have no idea what 18/50 of those words mean. I mean, I’ve seen/heard most of the words on the list, but either I once...
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    it makes me laugh that
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  49. madsimian reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    Great list. Second comment: NYT writers are obviously just fucking with us.
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    oh oh oh i love this
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    I am putting ‘x’ next to words I know. :D...Several more I had positive/negative...
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    swine? really? and glut?
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