“This year, the use of the word culture to define ideas in this way has moved from the classroom syllabus to the conversation at large, appearing in headlines and analyses across a wide swath of topics.”
Here’s the rest of the list (losers)
- nostalgia
- insidious
- legacy
- feminism,
- je ne sais quoi
- innovation
- surreptitious
- autonomy
- morbidity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/2014-word-of-the-year/culture.html
I think the top word in our home was ‘out’ (put your washing out, you can go out side if you’re to do that, I can’t dad I’m going out).