NYT list of 50 words you probably don't know

If you aren't sure what panegyric, immiscible, or Manichaean mean, it turns out nobody else does either. These words are among the 50 most obscure words used by the New York Times this year.

Compiled from NYT online articles run between January 1st and July 14th, the list ranks the words that readers looked up most often per mention via the Times' dictionary function. Panegyric (n. a eulogistic oration or writing) topped the list with 582 look-ups for the single time it was used.

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The article at the NYT blog is here.

Found at Gizmodo