Most Euphemistic Words of the Year
2010: Kinetic Event - Pentagon term for violent attacks on troops in Afghanistan.
2006: Waterboarding - an interrogation technique in which the subject is immobilized and doused with water to simulate drowning; reported to be used by U.S. interrogators against terrorism detainees.
2005: Internal Nutrition - force-feeding a prisoner.
2004: Badly Sourced - False.
2003: Pre-emptive Self-Defense - attack before a possible attack on oneself.
2001: Daisy Cutter - large bomb that explodes a few feet above the ground. Massacres everything in its path which resembles a daisy.
2000: Courtesy Call - an uninvited call from a telemarketer.
1998: Senior moment - momentary lapse of memory due to age.
1996: Urban Camping - living homeless in a city; Food Insecure - a country where people are starving
Source: American Dialect Society - Word of the Year 2010
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