Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Adopt a Word

legerdemain: slight of hand (GRE study word)

ovablastic: making eggs burst open in the womb (yikes)
See the Oxford Dictionaries Save the Words site

refudiate: Oxford New American Dictionary's word of the year, a conflation of refute and repudiate, and coined by - who else? Sarah Palin, in her tweet:

"Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."
See the slide show of the LA Times Top 10 Words of 2010

Gary Hernandez, a colleague in the Writing program, sent me the first link.
The second link is from the LA Times.

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