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Most frequently looked-up words on NYTimes (view)

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ieatcalculus

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Gavrilo2

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emma4

46s

of questionable taste or morality; decadent

Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.

An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event; a hitch

Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.

the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist

Marked by extreme anger or fury.

A writing or expression congruous with the tenets of hagiography.

The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.

Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

concealed or hidden out of the way.