| 100% | PRIDE | 5 | What "ruined the angels," per Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 59% | ART | 3 | "The creation of beauty," per Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 56% | SKY | 3 | "The daily bread of the eyes," per Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 56% | AMERICA | 7 | "Another name for opportunity," per Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 44% | SELFRELIANCE | 12 | Ralph Waldo Emerson essay |
| 43% | UNITARIAN | 9 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, e.g. |
| 42% | EFFORT | 6 | "Enthusiasm is the mother of ___": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 42% | ESSAYS | 6 | Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote quite a few |
| 41% | ESSAYS | 6 | Two Ralph Waldo Emerson collections |
| 41% | THRENODY | 8 | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 |
| 40% | ART | 3 | "A jealous mistress," per a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote |
| 40% | THEREWARDOFA | 12 | Start of a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote |
| 37% | HASTE | 5 | "Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than ___": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 36% | OFT | 3 | “___, in streets or humblest places, / I detect far-wandered graces”: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 35% | ANART | 5 | "Conversation is ___ in which a man has all mankind for his competitors": Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 34% | OLDAGE | 6 | What "education is the best provision for," per Aristotle |
| 34% | ASH | 3 | What got on Santa's clothes, per the poem |
| 34% | ESSAYS | 6 | Items that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Billy, my grade 8 grandson, have both come up with |
| 34% | SINNERS | 7 | What all people are, per the Bible |
| 34% | RACISM | 6 | What excellence is the best deterrent to, per Oprah Winfrey |
| 34% | DIVORCE | 7 | What "marriage is the chief cause of," per Groucho Marx |
| 33% | HAY | 3 | What to make while the sun shines, per an old proverb |
| 33% | FREEDENT | 8 | What “took the stick out of gum,” per a commercial ditty |
| 32% | EGO | 3 | What Ralph represents in a Freudian analysis of "Lord of the Flies" |
| 32% | ETNA | 4 | What "sends forth / His fiery breathings from the broken flues," per Virgil |
| 32% | HALO | 4 | What circles the top of the “A” in the Los Angeles Angels logo |
| 32% | ART | 3 | What "washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," per Picasso |
| 32% | PHONEHOME | 9 | What E.T. wanted to do while on Earth, per the 1982 movie |
| 31% | ANIMALS | 7 | What God created after the stars, per the Bible |
| 31% | REST | 4 | What to do on the Sabbath, per the Bible |