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New Day Cafe: Words of the Week [1]

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Date: 2023-03-20

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.

Today I bring you last week’s words of the week. (Merriam-Webster releases the list on Fridays, so this week’s is not yet available.) It contains some distant oldies and some recent newbies.

“Politicaster” was new to me, and I guess the other folks who were looking it up. “Mifepristone” isn’t new to me, but I’d never had to think about it as much as I have recently.

Panic I can relate to, but why the hell anyone who survived the Trump administration is just looking it up now is beyond me. I guess DeSantis put “vital” on the list:

“’Vital’ Vital was looked up quite a bit last week, after the governor of Florida pushed the word into the headlines by asserting that “becoming further entangled” in helping Ukraine defend against a Russian invasion was not among our vital national interests. DeSantis saying Ukraine support is not ‘vital’ national interest sparks backlash in GOP

— (headline) CNN, 15 Mar. 2023”

I don’t know how these people got over 400 on their SAT’s if they didn’t know what vital meant. Maybe they didn’t.

x These are your words of the week



Ides

mifepristone

vital

panic

politicasterhttps://t.co/nTGhkwqKu0 — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) March 17, 2023

Grab a cup of coffee

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This is an open thread. Please join us.

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