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Top Ten Most Relevant Words from the Third Republican Debate, October 28, 2015

These are the ten words that stand out as "relevant" to last night's debate according to the Vocabulary.com list builder, which compares how often words appear in a text to how often they appear in the 3.2 billion-word Vocabulary.com corpus. Find our complete vocabulary-focused debate analysis here.
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  1. entitlement
    right granted by law or contract
    You have to deal with entitlements, you have to be in a position to control discretionary spending.
    --Gov. John Kasich
  2. cronyism
    favoritism shown to friends and associates
    If people are promising they're going to take on Washington and cronyism, you need to look to who has been doing it.
    --Sen. Ted Cruz
  3. impacted
    wedged or packed in together
    And the people who are being impacted, you know, a question that was asked earlier, Becky asked, was about working women.
    --Sen. Ted Cruz
  4. mainstream
    the prevailing current of thought
    So this is another example of the double standard that exists in this country between the mainstream media and the conservative movement.
    --Sen. Marco Rubio
  5. inequality
    lack of balance or similarity in status
    You want to study income inequality, let's bring the Fed forward and talk about Fed policy and how it causes income inequality.
    --Sen. Rand Paul
  6. income
    the amount of money one makes over a period of time
    If you were to took a 10 percent tax, with the numbers right now in total personal income, you're gonna come in with bring in $1.5 trillion.
    --Ben Carson
  7. subsidy
    a grant of financial assistance, especially by a government
    Well, first of all, I was wrong about taking the oil subsidy. I have studied that issue in great detail. And what I have concluded is that the best policy is to get rid of all government subsidies, and get the government out of our lives, and let people rise and fall based on how good they are.
    --Ben Carson
  8. audit
    examine carefully for accuracy
    The first thing I think we need to do is audit the Fed.
    --Sen. Ted Cruz
  9. lobbyist
    someone who is employed to persuade how legislators vote
    Very good people are making very bad decisions right now. And if anything comes out of this whole thing with some of these nasty and ridiculous questions, I will tell you, you had better get rid of the super PACs, because they're causing a big problem with this country, not only in dishonesty and what's going on, but also in a lot of bad decisions that are being made for the benefit of lobbyists and special interests.
    --Donald Trump
  10. bipartisan
    supported by both sides
    they say there's no bipartisanship in Washington? We have a $19 trillion bipartisan debt and it continues to grow as we borrow money from countries that do not like us to pay for government we cannot afford.
    --Sen. Marco Rubio
Created on Thu Oct 29 08:21:29 EDT 2015 (updated Sun Nov 15 09:06:28 EST 2015)

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