![]() But there's one more part of the puzzle that's important for effective learning (even though it's less fun than word games). I'm sure you're already downloading a bunch of apps to kick off your vocabulary learning. My favorite at the moment is Qiktionary, which is a relaxing guessing game that rewards you with fascinating facts. Qiktionary (iOS solo) - Solve words puzzles to earn interesting fact cards.ħ Little Words (iOS, Android, Web) - Solve daily puzzles with multi-letter tiles and a list of words to find. Lexology (iOS solo) - Enter words based on a letter you're supplied in order to collect letters and advance in the game. SpellUp (iOS solo) - Another game in which you connect letters to form words, this time with an astrological twist. Words with Friends - The classic, Scrabble-like game pits you against your Facebook friends to see who can create the highest-scoring words. Word Pickle (iOS solo) - Construct as many words as you can from a 20-letter grid. Letterpress (iOS head-to-head) - Play against a friend in a word game like none other that has you stealing letters to create new words.Ĭatena (iOS head-to-head) - Use the last letters of your opponent's word to make a new one. Here are a few that I've enjoyed playing, which have improved my vocabulary along the way. For example, “if I have to restart this laptop one more time, I’m going to yeet it into the ocean.There are dozens, if not hundreds, of word games, each with their own twist. Yeet can also be used as a verb, meaning to throw with force and zero regard for the object being thrown. It’s the perfect way to say, “wow!” but cooler. For example, “that LinkedIn influencer who claims to make a million dollars a month is kind of sus.”įinally, the word “yeet” is getting the recognition it deserves as an expression of surprise, excitement, or enthusiasm. It can also be used to describe someone who is a suspect. For example, “that website is so janky,” or “I would love to join you for a 10-mile run, but I have this janky knee that keeps me on the couch in the warmth of my living room.”Īs a mom of middle schoolers, I am all too aware that the word “suspicious” has been shortened to “sus” in the game Among Us. This word is a variation of “junky” and is used to describe something that is not high quality. The internet responded by referring to people who are endearingly socially awkward as “adorkable.” As in, “those writers are so adorkable when they hide in their corners and refuse to join the rest of the company for happy hour.” The recent pandemic may have made us as a human population slightly more awkward than ever before. My kids might use this, as in, “Mom’s dance moves are so cringe.” It was first introduced in the 1570s to mean “to bend or crouch, especially with servility or fear.” Recently, it has become popularly used as an adjective to describe something so embarrassing it makes one perform the act of cringing. The word “cringe” has been used as a verb for centuries. For years, I’ve heard this used as a verb in phrases like, “looks like we’ll need to MacGyver our way out of this.” ![]() Youths might wonder who MacGyver is, but we older folks remember him as the guy who could get out of a jam using random tools and articles lying around. Example: ICYMI, Merriam-Webster has just added 370 new words to the dictionary. This acronym stands for “in case you missed it.” It’s a much faster way to say the phrase and is often used in emails, texts, and even blog posts. With that in mind, let’s look at some informal words and sayings that are officially dictionary-approved. People looking back at text messages, Slack channels, and emails 10 years from now might wonder what the heck we meant when we said these things. I find slang words particularly interesting because they represent how people communicate in everyday conversation at a specific moment in time. So, the more a word, phrase, or expression is used in different mediums, the more likely it is to earn an official dictionary definition. Top 7 Slang Words That Are Merriam-Webster ApprovedĪs we explained previously, Merriam-Webster officially adds words based on their usage.
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