Merriam-Webster announced the some 2,000 new additions to its unabridged dictionary this week, reflecting words we’re increasingly using today. Merriam-Webster’s editors add words that they believe will have staying power or are memorable. Some of the new words are:
- athleisure n : casual clothing designed to be worn both for exercising and for general use
- Bitcoin n : a digital currency created for use in peer-to-peer online transactions
- cold case n : an unsolved criminal investigation (as of a homicide or abduction) that has stopped being actively pursued because of a lack of evidence
- cold turkey n : abrupt complete cessation without medication of the use of drugs by a drug addict
- dox transitive verb, slang : to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge
- fit and flare adj : fitted through the waist and flaring out at or below the hips
- FOMO n, informal : fear of not being included in something (such as an interesting or enjoyable activity) that others are experiencing
- hella adv, slang : very, extremely
- ICYMI abbr : used to draw attention to something published or posted online earlier
- meet-cute n : a cute, charming, or amusing first encounter between romantic partners (as in a movie)
- nomophobia n : fear of being without access to a working cell phone
- revenge porn n : sexually explicit images of a person posted online without that person’s consent especially as a form of revenge or harassment
- TMI abbr : too much information
- trigger warning n : a statement cautioning that content (as in a text, video, or class) may be disturbing or upsetting
- wacky tobacky n, slang : marijuana
- waggle dance n : a series of figure-eight movements performed by a bee to indicate the direction and abundance of a distant food source.
Have you added these words to your vocabulary?
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