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Most Looked-Up NYT Words 2010
Quiz on Friday; spelling counts. (Students will not be responsible for learning crazy words Maureen Dowd made up. Full list here in PDF.)
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Is it a good thing or bad thing that I knew all of these words but 1(not counting baldenfreud)? Is it good or bad that I never use them in daily life so as to avoid being called a douchebag?
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I think it's strange the only word I know out of this is Kristallnacht… oh and overhaul of course.
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I know two of those words! And yes, I am very proud of that fact.
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more like most accidentally clicked words. I hate that thing
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Overhaul? People were really looking up overhaul?
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