The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz must be having a field day with this one.
The NYTimes has a feature on their website where a visitor can double-click any word in any article and be presented with the definition of what that word means.
And, just like everything on the Internet, such usage is tracked. And if it’s tracked, then it’s something that can be reported.
Here are the 50 MOST LOOKED UP WORDS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES WEBSITE, by you – their readers.
- inchoate — and because Web Watch cares, we’ll share with you what the definition is of the #1 most-often looked up word: “Being only partly in existence or operation; imperfectly formed. See also “formless” or “incoherent”
- profligacy
- sui generis
- austerity
- profligate
- baldenfreude
- opprobrium
- apostates
- solipsistic
- obduracy
- Internecine
- soporific
- Kristallnacht
- peripatetic
- nascent
- desultory
- redoubtable
- hubris
- mirabile dictu
- crèches
- apoplectic
- overhaul
- ersatz
- obstreperous
- jejune
- omertà
- putative
- Manichean
- canard
- ubiquitous
- atavistic
- renminbi
- sanguine
- antediluvian
- cynosure
- alacrity
- epistemic
- egregious
- incendiary
- chimera
- laconic
- polemicist
- comity
- provenance
- sclerotic
- prescient
- hegemony
- verisimilitude
- feckless
- démarche