Here is a list of the top 50 words that New York Times readers look up when they read them in the Times.
How cool is this! We're going to discuss them, one a day, at breakfast for the next 50 or so days.
Here are some that I didn't know...I might have a sense of them, but not enough to pound my fist and give a definition:
phlogiston
bonobo
Sisyphean
Atreus
apotheosis
hagiography
parlous
louche
shibboleths
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thanks for the link. I thoroughly enjoyed the article. My kids know what "sisyphean" means because I always tease them about pretending to be Sisysphys when we go to Target and they try to move the big, red, concrete balls. Talk about a strange way to learn vocab. LOL
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