Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Popularity Contest



  1. effect

  2. apathetic

  3. affect

  4. integrity

  5. metaphor

  6. google

  7. pretentious

  8. awkward

  9. eclectic

  10. ambiguous





  1. conundrum

  2. whether

  3. quixotic

  4. albeit

  5. melancholy

  6. love

  7. democracy

  8. paradigm

  9. didactic

  10. hypocrite


These are a few of my favorite things. (Not -- many are often used in a hackneyed fashion. Still, it pays to increase your word power, and this list was based on queries, not use on the Web.)

"Meanwhile, slipping off the list were hypothesis, caveat, and gorgeous. Caveat only slipped to No. 23, so we're sure we haven't seen the last of this one."

Sort of a caveat caveat, eh?

Link.