It includes rarely heard words - such as "opsimath" and "subtopia" - in an effort to draw attention to what writer and project leader Christopher Scott Williams calls "some of the English language's most expressive - yet regrettably neglected - words".
It is a project that British author Mark Forsyth, who recently released The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, welcomes.
He said: "Of course some words deserve bringing back as we don't have an equivalent word for them today.
"But I'm not so sure about words like 'knavery' and 'caterwaul' that I see have made the list; after all I still use them today. Are they really forgotten?
"I prefer bringing back old words that have a very specific use and could potentially catch on.
"For example, I use the word 'poon'. It's something to put under the leg of a table to stop it rocking and I ask for one every time I end up in a restaurant with a wobbly table.
"Because of the context, the waiter always understands exactly what I mean."
Word Warrior's Top 10 words to be revived for 2015:
Caterwaul: A shrill howling or wailing noise.
Concinnity: The skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.
Flapdoodle: Nonsense.
Knavery: A roguish or mischievous act.
Melange: A mixture of different things.
Obambulate: To walk about.
Opsimath: A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.
Philistine: A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
Rapscallion: A mischievous person.
April Fools' Day was better than Christmas for the young rapscallion.
Subtopia: Monotonous urban sprawl of standardised buildings.
(Source: Word Warrior's 2015 Top 10)
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