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When you don’t know the meaning of a word, there’s one apparent place to turn: the dictionary.
Logically, some words tend to muddy people more than others, as shown by Merriam-Webster’s list of the 10 most looked up words in its online dictionary.
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1. Pretentious
Someone is showy if they express unjustified or overstated importance, worth, or stature. Think pint snobs or Prius drivers, as the stereotype go.
2. Ubiquitous
It is used to define something that is extensive and constantly come across, like television or fast food.
3. Cynical
Someone is cynical if they are suspicious of people’s motives, or believe that human behavior is inspired mainly by self-interest. A cynical person might question why you suggest to do them a favor, intellectual to themselves, “What do they really want?”
4.Apathetic
Merely put, you’re apathetic if you don’t care about something. A substitute for apathetic is “indifferent.”
5.Conundrum
A conundrum is a complex or a challenging problem. According to Merriam-Webster, it’s often used to define apparently inexplicable questions concerning ethics, sociology, and economics, but it can also state normally to any enigma or mystery.
6.Albeit
Albeit is a one word auxiliary for “even though,” like when you describe an overgenerous, albeit classy, nightfall on the town.
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7.Ambiguous
Something that is ambiguous can be tacit in two or more possible ways. For example, the sentence “the farmers are nauseating” is ambiguous, because it could mean that the farmworkers are protesting in the roads, or that they are materially filthy.
8. Integrity
Integrity is the steady devotion to an encryption of morals. We expect our leaders to act with ethical integrity, for example, and choirs who “sell out” might get carped for negotiating their creative integrity.
9.Affect/Effect
The definition of these words are not puzzling, but recalling when to use each one can sure be thorny. A good rule of thumb is that “affect” is usually a verb and “effect” is usually a noun. The climate can affect your mood, and a new strategy can have a shattering effect.
10 Love
OK, so this one isn’t perplexing at all, at least when taken at face value. But what exactly is love, if you had to explicate it? Merriam-Webster gambled it’s that rigorous question that initiates so many people to look up “love” in the dictionary. For what it means, the dictionary clarifies love as “strong affection for another rising out of relationship or personal ties” or “allure based on sexual cravings.”
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