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50 New words with meaning

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Here are your answer 50 new words with meanings.hope it helps you.

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1. automagically - Automatically in a way that seems magical.

2. bargainous - Costing less than expected.

3. big media - Primary mass communication sources, e.g., TV and the press.

4. bromance - Close platonic male friendship.

5. buzzkill - Person or thing that has a depressing effect.

6. carbon credit - Permit allowing a certain amount of carbon dioxide emissions.

7. carbon offsetting - Counteraction of CO2 emissions with a corresponding reduction.

8. catastrophize - To present a situation as worse than it is.

9. cheeseball - Lacking taste or style.

10. chillax -To calm down and relax.

11. cool hunter - One who predicts new styles and trends.

12. cougar - Older woman who dates younger men.

13. eggcorn - Logical swap of words with similar sounds (from "egg corn" for "acorn").

14. exit strategy - Planned means of extricating oneself from a situation.

15. flash mob - Brief gathering for a common purpose, announced by e-mail or text.

16. flyover states - [derogatory] Central regions of the U.S.

17. frenemy - Friend with whom one has frequent conflict.

18. friend - To add to a list of personal associates on a website.

19. gal pal - Female friend.

20. green audit - Analysis of a business' environmental impact.

21. green-collar -Of or relating to workers in the environmentalist business sector.

22. hater - Negative person.

23. heart - To like very much; love.

24. homeshoring - Moving jobs to employees' homes (from "offshoring").

25. hypermiling - Altering a car to maximize its fuel economy.

26. LBD - Little black dress.

27. locavore - One who primarily eats locally grown food.

28. matchy-matchy - Excessively color-coordinated.

29. megachurch - Huge church congregation, typically evangelical Christian.

30. meme - Image, video or phrase passed electronically on the Internet.

31. microblog -To post very short entries on a blog.

32. overleveraged - Having taken on too much debt.

33. own - To utterly defeat or humiliate.

34. paywall - Arrangement whereby website access is restricted to paying users only.

35. pimp - To make something more showy or impressive.

36. riff - To expound on a particular subject.

37. rock - To do something in a confident, flamboyant way.

38. sheeple - Unquestioning followers (from "sheep" + "people").

39. social media - Websites and applications used for social networking.

40. soft skills - Attributes that enable someone to interact harmoniously with others.

41. staycation - Vacation spent at home.

42. toxic debt - Debt that has a high risk of default.

43. truthiness - Quality of seeming true.

44. turducken - Roast of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey.

45. tweet - Posting made on the social networking site Twitter.

46. unfriend - To remove from a list of personal associates on a website.

47. viral adj - Circulating rapidly on the Internet.

48. vuvuzela - Long horn blown by fans at soccer matches.

49. webisode - Episode or short film made for viewing online.

50. zombie bank - Insolvent bank that survives through government support.

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