Previous Words of the Year

2004

1. blog

   noun [short for Weblog] : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer

2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada

7. peloton

   noun : the main body of riders in a bicycle race

8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

2003

1. democracy
2. quagmire
3. quarantine
4. matrix
5. marriage
6. slog
7. gubernatorial
8. plagiarism
9. outage
10. batten