Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online announces it’s Top 10 words for 2004. I must say I am surprised that “Blog” has risen to such a level of verbal importance. The other top few words directly link back to the 2004 election campaign topics.

Based on the number of online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was “Blog” noun [short for Weblog](1999): a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.

Here are the other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

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