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Savethewords.org gives words dropped from common usage, and thereby from the dictionary, a second chance at life! Scroll over the screen, and abandoned and neglected words cry out for your attention: “Pick me!” “Yes, yes, me!” (You can disable the yelling, if you find it really annoying.) If you discover a word that deserves to reclaim its place in the dictionary, you can “adopt” it, pledging to use it as frequently as possible, in hopes that lexicographers will pick up on its newfound popularity and restore it to its rightful place!

Even if you don’t adopt a word, it’s still interesting to scroll through a morass of words you’ve never seen before. I learned, for instance, that a panchymagogue is a medicine purging fluids from the body. Do with that what you will.