Top Ten Words of 2004
blog: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks.
incumbent: the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice.
electoral: of or relating to an election.
insurgent: a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially a rebel not recognized as a belligerent.
hurricane: a tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (118 kilometers) per hour or greater that occurs especially in the western Atlantic, that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
cicada: any of a family (Cicadidae) of homopterous insects which have a stout body, wide blunt head, and large transparent wings and the males of which produce a loud buzzing noise usually by stridulation.
peloton: the main body of riders in a cycling race, such as last summer's Tour de France.
partisan: a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.
sovereignty: supreme power especially over a body politic.
defenestration: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window.
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