#NewWord2020 – week 2 of our action!

#NewWord2020 – week 2 of our action!

Last week’s #NewWord2020 posts were very diverse – sports, foods, bioengineering, astronomy… They perfectly reflect the complexity of our contemporary life and how the language may illustrate it. Let us take a look at the seven new words we have found for you this past week. Were you surprised by any of them? 🙂 Second week of #NewWords2020 farm-fresh – (of food, drink, or flavour) very fresh or fresh-tasting, (as if) coming straight from the farm, garbage time – a period of time towards the end of a game in which one team has such a substantial lead that the outcome is no longer in doubt, shot clock – a clock that displays a countdown of the time within which a shot must be attempted, antitail – a luminous protuberance which appears to extend from a comet?s head towards the sun, athleisure – casual, comfortable clothing or footwear designed to

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Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

Let’s kick off – #NewWords2020

The world around us is constantly changing. With new inventions, ideas and achievements, we gain not only greater life comfort and broader knowledge, but also… new words! We love to discover the expressions that pop up in various areas, and we enjoy sharing them even more. To this end, we have prepared a series of Facebook posts ? each day, we upload one word that has been recently added to the Oxford English online dictionary. Here, on our website, we are going to post weekly summaries of our action in social media. New words we have discovered this week In the first week of our #NewWords2020 action, we learnt some new scientific and informal words. Ready? Enoughness ? the quality or fact of being enough; sufficiency, adequacy. Denialist ? a person who denies the existence or reality of something, esp. something which is supported by the majority of scientific or

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Linguistic summer adventure like no other – LEO Academy

Linguistic summer adventure like no other – LEO Academy

At MD Online, we constantly develop our language skills and the skills of our families, translators and of the whole world ? We love foreign languages and attend various language courses and studies, acquire titles and degrees, and communicate daily in foreign languages. We know that you also want to work on improving your language skills, so we present you our new solution – LEO Academy. Travelling in the times of the pandemic At the time being, due to the sanitary restrictions, we cannot travel freely around the world and practice our language skills in everyday conversations with native speakers. Of course, we can watch movies or attend courses, but it is not as exciting as real contact with a foreign language. What if you could travel safely and improve your language skills without even leaving your house? Sounds impossible, but our founders have found a solution and created an

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