Some online dictionaries report each year on what words were looked up most on their site. Back in 2005, some of the most popular words were refugee, pandemic, tsunami, and levee. Because of worldwide catastrophic events that year, we can readily understand why those words were checked.

The most popular lookup for the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary that year, however, was the word integrity. The definition given is: “firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values.” It’s used to describe those who are unwilling to be bribed or morally corrupted. Why was that word on the top of the list?

Could it be because integrity is so lacking that many don’t know what it looks like in someone’s life? Why do you think it was the number one word?