Friday, February 09, 2007

Newspeak

Jen dug up her list of Webster words; how many do you know?

Abstract, allusion, appropriate, auspicious, caricature, circumspect, condescend, contrived, derogatory, dogmatic, ethereal, facetious, genre, idyllic, inept, introspective, maudlin, obscure, parody, profane, succinct, urbane, sardonic, proficient, verbose, sublime, abysmal, ambiguous, arcane, banal, catharsis, cliché, conjecture, didactic, dubious, exhaustive, farcical, histrionic, impartial, inherent, ironic, moribund, obsequious, patronize, profound, sarcasm, vernacular, tangible, rhetorical, prosaic, subversive, innocuous, celestial, acerbic, anachronism, archetype, blatant, caustic, cognitive, constant, decadent, discreet, empirical, existential, figurative, hyperbole, inane, insidious, juxtapose, mundane, obtuse, pedantic, superfluous, profuse, vapid, soporific, redundant, superficial, acute, antithesis, artful, burlesque, cerebral, coherent, contentious, decorous, disparate, equivocal, explicit, flagrant, iconoclast, incongruous, integral, loquacious, novel, panacea, poignant, sagacious, tangential, saccharine, vitriolic, subtle, sanctimonious, terse.

Also, the following word will be added to the English msn language:

nop roblem - aka no problem but the updated version

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