Top 10 words to use in 2013

The Washington Post released last week Wayne State University’s list of words that “deserve to be used more often in conversation and prose.” Quoting the 5^th annual “Wayne State’s Word Warriors” list, the Post said the words on the list are “most expressive yet regrettably neglected.” The 10 words include: buncombe or rubbish; cerulean or sky blue; chelonian or turtle-like; dragoon or to compel by coercion; fantods or extreme anxiety; mawkish or sappy; natter or converse aimlessly at great length; persiflage or frivolous talk; troglodyte or mentally sluggish person; winkle or extract something. Using some of these words in a sentence will yield the following: Elections, a festival of buncombe, can also be a period of persiflage, fantods and nattering.

Read the full story in The Washington Post.