IELTS HOPECO Vocabulary: The Newest Words in English 12

New words enter English from every area of life where they represent and describe the changes and developments that take place from day to day.

• Staycation: A vacation in which you stay at home and relax or visit places close to where you live.
• Street food: Food prepared and sold by vendors in a street or a public location for immediate consumption.
• Subprime/Sub-prime: The adjective subprime describes a risky loan, or lending money at a higher rate of interest to borrowers who have a poor credit history.
• Sudoku: A number placement puzzle consisting of a grid of nine 3-by-3 squares. Each row, column and square must contain only one instance of the numbers 1 to 9.
• Tech neck: Wrinkles around the neck caused by looking down at phones, tablets, etc.
• Textonym: A word produced by predictive text software when you press a  combination of numbers on the keypad of a mobile phone.
• Textspeak: Language used in text messages consisting of abbreviations, acronyms, initials, emoticons, etc.
• Textual harassment: Sending text messages to mobile phones which insult or abuse people.
• Tombstoning: Jumping or diving into water from a dangerously high place such as a hotel balcony, a cliff, bridge, wall, roof, etc.
• Trashion: Blend of 'trash' and 'fashion'. Fashionable items created from old, used and recycled elements.
• Trekkie: A fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek.
• Tribal marketing: Marketing strategy which consists in using the social behaviour of certain groups ('tribes') of consumers (e.g. surfers, rappers) to promote a product or service. Very often used by clothing and accessory brands.
• Troll factory: A company or organisation that pays employees to pretend to be ordinary internet users and write online comments in favour of or against somebody.
• Tweeps: Blend of 'Twitter' and 'peeps' (people). Users who follow you on Twitter.
• Tweet: People who 'tweet' send short messages via the microblogging service Twitter.
• Tweetheart: A user of the Twitter service who is very popular or admired, or with whom other users communicate a lot.
• Tweet seats: Seats in a theatre or concert hall given to people who wish to tweet during the performance.
• Twintern: Blend of 'Twitter' and 'intern'. A person, usually a student or recent graduate, employed by a company to promote its products or services on Twitter or other social media.

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