Check out just a few of the new words:
acai
carbon footprint
cardioprotective
earmark
fan fiction
flash mob
frenemy
goji
green-collar
haram
locavore
memory foam
missalette
naproxen
neuroprotective
pharmacogenetics
physiatry
reggaeton
shawarma
sock puppet
staycation
vlog
waterboarding
webisode
zip line
Find the definitions here. I knew most, but I admit that I figured "memory foam" meant the way that, at my age, you kinda-sorta remember that you read or heard something about something related to the topic, but you can't remember exactly what or exactly where. And I didn't know "haram," either.
How'd you do?
Picture found here.
3 comments:
I didn't know naproxeb. I do now!
Interestingly I did know both haram and shawarma (also shvarma, yumyum), as South Africa has a very present Middle-Eastern component to its citizenry.
Oh yes, and missalette also stumped me. Not going to waste time over that one.
Love,
Terri in Joburg
..er..naproxen. Sorry. It's still dark here.
I now use the dictionary I won from "It's Academic" in 1977 as a teaching tool. There must be 100 words in regular use now that aren't in that dictionary. Even I.R.A. is defined as "Irish Republican Army."
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