Merriam-Webster Online has created a window into our national preoccupations by releasing the Top 10 most-looked-up words of 2005, in order of their most-looked-uppedness.
- 1. integrity
- 2. refugee
- 3. contempt
- 4. filibuster
- 5. insipid
- 6. tsunami
- 7. pandemic
- 8. conclave
- 9. levee
- 10. inept
I wish everyone in the White House would look up #1. And then DO it!
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