New York Times has made a list of the supposedly 50 most challenging words but didn't define them or use them in context for fledgeling vocabulary aficionados. Joe Heitzeberg took one for the team and fixed the list up. I'm kinda sad at some of the words on this list.
http://www.currentlyobsessed.com/2010/06/15/new-york-times-50-most-challenging-words-defined-and-used/
'Austerity' and 'overhaul' are not difficult words. 'Nascent' and 'hubris' aren't either.
Anyway, it was a somewhat interesting read-through. "Baldenfreude" :lulz: