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
Read more →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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