Last night , the popular candidate for chairperson had their first debate andVocabulary.comused theirlist - do toolto figure out what the most relevant word used in the debate were . The tool determines relevance by finding which words are used more frequently than one would expect when compared to the language as a whole . They also pull out the most memorable vocabulary mo for each candidate . tap the word to see the definition , or study alist of relevant words at Vocabulary.com . Here are the results .
1. CLINTON (MOST RELEVANT) //AMOK
Hillary Clinton used this relatively rarified word for out - of - ascendency , helter-skelter behavior to spill the beans about the chore of reining in " the excesses of capitalist economy so that it does n’t range amok . "
2. CLINTON (MOST MEMORABLE) //REVERE
Clinton say " I revere my tardy mother " when talking about her family background .
3. SANDERS (MOST RELEVANT) //QUAGMIRE
Bernie Sanders used the wordquagmire , for a mess that ’s hard to get out of , three times in less than 30 seconds when he called Iraq a mire and then Syria " a morass in a quagmire . "
4. SANDERS (MOST MEMORABLE) //SOCIALISM
Prompted by a question from Anderson Cooper , Sanders gave his account of " what popular socialist economy is about . " At the same meter , theonline dictionary at Merriam Webstersaw a huge spike in people front up the definition of socialist economy .
5. O’MALLEY (MOST RELEVANT) //DENIGRATE
6. O’MALLEY (MOST MEMORABLE) //BARKER
In blab out about the DREAM Act , O’Malley referred to Donald Trump as " that funfair doggie . "
7. WEBB (MOST RELEVANT) //INEVITABILITY
Jim Webb talked about " the inevitableness of something like Benghazi occurring in the way that we intervened in Libya . "
8. WEBB (MOST MEMORABLE) //GRENADE
Moderator Anderson Cooper ask the campaigner to name the foe they are most lofty to have made , and Webb mention " the enemy soldier that switch the grenade that offend me . "
9. CHAFEE (MOST RELEVANT) //ECHELON
Lincoln Chafee talked about the money to be gained from gamey taxes on the " top echelon . " It was an funnily fancy - sounding word for a populist message .
10. CHAFEE (MOST MEMORABLE) //GRANITE
To emphasize how consistent he is in his positions on the issues , Chafee likened himself to a " block of granite . "
