I just finished my first full day of ETS yesterday. One of the benefits of convening a whole herd of scholars is that it creates a ripe opportunity for hearing very choice vocabulary words. Here are ten of my favorites so far:
You get ten cool points if you guess which ones were uttered by Al Mohler. I’ll give you a hint: you have a 60% chance of being right.



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November 20, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Molly Piper
I had a professor in grad school who used “gestalt” all the time.
November 20, 2008 at 11:18 pm
tim decker
1. Deleterious
2. Recidivist
4. Atomistic
5. Foment
9. Erudition
10. Cogently
how’d I do?
November 20, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Johnathon
You got three out of six. Mohler’s were deleterious, recidivist, longitudinal, foment, intelligentsia, and gestalt. You still get ten cool points for trying :-)
November 22, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Thabiti
I thought surely Mohler would bust out a ’soporific’ or two!