IELTS HOPECO Vocabulary: The Newest Words in English 13

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.

• Twitterati: People who frequently use the social networking site Twitter.
• Twittion: Blend of 'Twitter' and 'petition',  a Twitter petition.
• Trolling: Being provocatively rude or insulting on the Internet in order to cause anger or conflict in an online community such as a blog, chat room or discussion forum.
• Unfollow: Stop receiving another's person's messages on Twitter.
• Unfriend: Remove someone from your list of friends on social networks such as Facebook.
• Upskill: Teach an employee new or additional skills.
• UX: Short for 'user experience'.
• Vape/Vaping: Simulate smoking by inhaling and exhaling vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device
• Videophile: Person who is very interested in watching videos and making recordings, and values high-quality results.
• Viral marketing: Marketing strategy that consists in encouraging people to pass along information to friends, family and colleagues through e-mail messages, blogs, video-sharing, etc., so that the marketing message spreads like a virus.
• Vook: A combination of video, text, images and social streams in an electronic book.
• Wave pool: A large swimming pool with a machine for producing waves.
• Web rage: Anger or frustration as a result of difficulties or problems encountered when using the Internet.
• Webinar: Presentation or seminar conducted over the web.
• Weblish: A form of English that is used on the web (use of abbreviations, acronyms, small letters, absence of punctuation and hyphens etc.) Also known as : webspeak, netspeak, internetese.
• Widget: Blend of 'window' and 'gadget'. A small application or tool that can be installed and executed within a web page.
• Wiki: A web page which allows multiple users to contribute to its content. The most well-known is the website Wikipedia.
• Winterval: Blend of 'winter' and 'festival'. A festival that takes place in winter.
• Wordle: The words of a piece of text arranged into a sort of graphic. The more frequent a particular word appears in the text, the bigger its size in the wordle. (Also called 'word cloud' or 'text cloud'.)
• Zumba: A fitness activity which combines lively international music with dance exercises.

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