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Most Looked-Up Words in 2004

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Dictionary.com presents the "most popular word" for each letter of the alphabet. These are the words, according to our logs, which were the most frequently looked-up in 2004.

New to Dictionary.com in 2004
Dictionary.com presents some of the interesting new words added to the site in 2004. These words are part of Dictionary.com's Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English.

	Most Popular Word	New Words Added in 2004
A	affect	above the fold, actionable intelligence, areology, Ayurveda
B	belligerent	barrista, blog, bullet point
C	cynical	career coach, celebutante, cherry-pick, craft beer
D	democracy	dark energy, deliverable, disintermediate, drilldown
E	effect	empty calories, enqueue, Euroland, exoplanet
F	fallacious	faith-based, free climbing, future-proof
G	gregarious	genocide, giclée, glazomania
H	hyperbole	hands-free, heirloom seed, hoodie, hybrid car,
I	inept	identity theft, insalata verde
J	jealousy	job rotation, joined-up, jump the shark, junk science
K	knowledge	kaizen, key card, kill zone
L	love	laugh test, lifestyle drug
M	metaphor	macchiato, mash-up, modded, mojo, mouthfeel
N	naive	NASCAR dad, new build, Niçoise
O	oxymoron	on-message, ortholog
P	paradox	phisher, pixelated, policy wonk
Q	quibble	qigong, quaffable, quiddity
R	rhetoric	rate-capping, recipe dish
S	satire	scroop, skeevy, soft copy, spyware
T	turpitude	technology transfer, transglobal
U	ubiquitous	underground economy, uparmor, upsell, usability engineering
V	virtue	value-free, vertical writing, virtualize
W	www	wayfinding, wiki
X	xenophobia	xenotransplantation, xerostomia
Y	yield	yadda yadda yadda
Z	zeal	zaitech, zap-proof, zero-emission vehicle, zester

Props to Patrick Gaskill for his Suggested Google Alphabet.