The 100 Words of Word Woman

Welcome to a spectacular, singular instance of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Hang on to your socks, folks, because this post celebrates the 100th Word of the Week -- and the word is:

Literati: [noun, plural] men (or women) of letters; intellectuals -- The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words, Laurence Urdang, Ed., Weathervane Books, 1972.

Example: If you know the meaning of all of the 100 words posted by Word Woman in the past two years, you are indeed a literati!


Here are the first 25 of the 100 Words of Word Woman. I'll post more of them next week!

1. Aginate
2. Compassion fatigue
3. Malpais
4. Bloviate
5. Factoid
6. Horripilate
7. Rachisagra
8. Crapulous
9. Boondoogle
10. Sapid/Vapid
11. Front porcher
12. Gerrymander/Eponym
13. Satisdiction
14. Pansophism
15. Bombilation
16. Pax Americana
17. Hormic theory
18. Case of slow
19. Bowdlerize
20. Monition
21. Slactivism
22. Acrophile
23. Repubocrat/Demopublican
24. Morbific
25. Synedoche