Baader-Meinhof Words
This list is for those conspicuous words that, inexplicably, pop up many times in a very short period of time.
You get an eerie, déjà vu-like feeling when you notice the same, obscure word used in completely separate and different, yet coinciding, things in your life:
Your friend uses this word when talking to you and you stop listening to every word after it because it's the same strange word that jumped out from the page in the book you were reading yesterday. When you get home you turn on the television and the newscaster uses that same word. You go on the internet and some person has used it in a comment. You start to get paranoid at the ubiquity - it's following you. But then, as suddenly as it surrounded you, it fades away, and you're left wondering what the fuck just happened.