Adding New Words to your Vocabulary

Every year a number of words get added to the English Language and find their way to the Oxford Dictionary. Rapid development of technology has created multiple new products, services,and functionalities, which all need new terms to describe them. Social media has added to the fast circulation of a new vovabulary as well. Last year, we saw 'Vuvuzela", the irritating horn used at the Football World cup making it, besides words like Slumdog. This year the English language finds an increasing influence of the Worldwide Web,and has included words such as:

Scareware-     malicious computer programmes
Trackpad-      touchpad
Buttload -       a large amount
Bloggable-      a suitable topic for blogging
Onliner-          an internet user
Cyberbullying- bullying via the net
Cybersecurity-Protective measures adopted to safe guard against hacking & malicious spyware.
Clickjacking-   manipulating a user's activity by concealing hyperlinks

Mobile phone texting has also added some new words and phrases to the Oxford dictionary.A few of them are:

Sexting          - sending explicit images or messages
tbh                - to be honest
feature phone-a mobile phone with extra features
fnarr fnarr     - sniggering

Other new words this year which find a place are:

Tanorexia      -an obsessive desire to get a tan
Jazzhands      -a gesture with hands waved to express excitement
Trolleyed       -extremely drunk
gastricband     -device for the surgical treatment of obesity
rumourmill       -the process by which rumours are originated
light-bulb moment-a moment of sudden realisation

Did I not say- Building your Vocab is a life long process!! Happy Vocab!