Waterfall Game - Most frequently looked-up words on NYTimes.com(2009)

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Most frequently looked-up words on NYTimes.com(2009) (view)

The goal of this game is to enter all your answers as fast as possible. Your score is based on the flashcard that takes the longest. You are only as fast as your slowest answer, so you need to know all your flashcards to do well.

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ieatcalculus

23s

Gavrilo2

29s

A writing or expression congruous with the tenets of hagiography.

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse.

The hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.

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

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.

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

A random or sudden outburst (of activity).

Marked by extreme anger or fury.

Incessant or incessantly recurring, but futile.

Any of various omnivorous, even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae.