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.
Photo spread from Italy, with prose
4 days ago
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