50 most looked-up words on NYTimes.com →
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:
- sui generis
- solipsistic
- louche
- laconic
- saturnine
- antediluvian
- epistemological
- shibboleths
- penury
- sumptuary
- schadenfreude
- peripatetic
- abstruse
- parlous
- enervating
- adenoidal
- feckless
- solipsism
- ersatz
- fealty
- sanguine
- sartorial
- hagiography
- pandemic
- hagiographic
- dauphin
- antebellum
- paroxysm
- risible
- interlocutor
- swine
- apotheosis
- comity
- Atreus
- banal
- profligacy
- Sisyphean
- inchoate
- apoplectic
- neologisms
- bildungsroman
- peroration
- fungible
- recondite
- bonobo
- phlogiston
- contretemps
- appurtenances
- glut
- fecklessness
Shibboleths? Is there going to be some sort of test or something? zing! More people had to look up swine than bonobo.
