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Palins refudiate is Word of the Year

WASHINGTON: Refudiate,a word coined by US politician Sarah Palin,has been named 2010s Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. 46-year-old Palin introduced the term into US lexicon last July when she used it in a tweet about a proposed Islamic cultural centre near World Trade Center site in New York city. Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesnt it stab you in heart,as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims,pls refudiate, the former Alaskan governor posted. Oxford University Press has defined the word refudiate as a verb used loosely to mean reject. The Huffington Post said the term became one of the most-searched words on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary over the summer.