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New York Times 50 Most Challenging Words (defined and used)

15, Jun 2010

The New York Times recently published a list of 50 fancy words that most frequently stump their readership. They are able to measure this data thanks to a nifty in-page lookup mechanism, which you can try here. Try double-clicking the word “epicenter”.
Since the NYT didn’t include definitions of these words, I decided to [...]


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