Category Archives: word of the week

Word of the Week (Dec 21, 2008)

21 Dec 2008 – 23:48

It’s almost Christmas and there has been terrible weather around the country this week! Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on December 21, 2008 anticipation awesome bailout bored busy chaotic christmas cold concern craptop disillusionment fastidiousness freedom frosty fun godly hardwork hectic illusion indefatigable inheritance inimitable irrevocably joust loquacious molybdenum [...]

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Word of the Week (Dec 14, 2008)

16 Dec 2008 – 23:48

(Sorry that I am late on getting this post out!) I guess it’s still the busy shopping period: Christmas is next week afterall! Not sure how much this week’s words reflect this. The end-of-the year may always be tiring and hectic; we have see similar words in previous posts. Here are the Words of the [...]

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Monthly word summaries

7 Dec 2008 – 18:48

Since I’ve been running the word-of-the-week poll on Mechanical Turk since the beginning of October (total of 10 weeks), I thought I’d combine the monthly words for October and November to see what we get! Combined words for October 2008: Combined words for November 2008:

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Word of the Week (Dec 7, 2008)

7 Dec 2008 – 18:33

Last week was Thanksgiving, which means Christmas is quickly approaching. Maybe people are busy shopping in this period? Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on December 7, 2008: accusatory action alleviate amazing anxious authority blessings bored break bureaucracy busy celebratory chaos chaotic cheerful choch continuity conundrum cool crap darn defenestration [...]

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Word of the Week (Nov 30, 2008)

1 Dec 2008 – 19:43

This past week we had Thanksgiving and some horrendous terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on November 30, 2008: absolutely abundance acrimony aggravating amazing androgyny annorexic apocalyptico average blessing bobaloo bubble busy clinodactyl cold complicated cookies creosote determination disappointing ditzy doublespeak dumbo egregious elections eleemosynary employment [...]

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