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Word Warriors' 2011 top 10
Wayne State University launched this website two years ago to retrieve some of the English language's most expressive words from the dank closet of neglect, in hopes of boosting their chances of a return to conversation and narrative. Some of these words once were part of the common speech (it was hard to be a writer in the late 19th century, for instance, without "indefatigable"); others have capered in and out of the language like harlequins, dazzling and then just as suddenly departing. Others -- the wonderful "numinous," for one -- may never have been heard every day or even every year. Some, like "galoshes," just went into hiding for no apparent reason.
But no matter why especially expressive words have disappeared from everyday use, we believe many of them still deserve to be exercised freely in prose, poetry, song and story. Otherwise, we simply aren't painting our speech with a full palette.
So cue the fanfare, please. Check out the Word Warriors' 2011 list of the 10 best picks from last year’s selection of eminently useful but often overlooked words...
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