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On this Super Tuesday morning, check out the Vocabulary.com Dictionary definition page for super. Aside from the glut of usage examples surrounding super pac and Super Tuesday, the page is filled with clues as to how this fairly neutral Latin adverb and preposition for "above," "over," or "beyond" acquired its perky yet powerful aftertaste.

(For the whole story on super, see Vocabulary.com lexicographer Ben Zimmer's meditation on the word here.)

A friend of mine recently alerted me to an odd type of "word." See if you can guess what the following mean:

•   l10n
•   i18n
•   d11n

...the "Sparkling, Swooning and Suffering Wordlessly" Vocabulary List, created from A.O. Scott's New York Times review of Best Picture Award winner The Artist. Learn this list and impress your friends with your erudite analysis of the film. Even if, like most people, you haven't seen it.

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