Question

Which was named as the ‘Word of the Year 2018’ by Oxford dictionaries?

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Toxic
Post truth
Selfie

Answer 1

Answer : TOXIC


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The word "Toxic" was named as the 'word of the year 2018' by Oxford dictionaries.

The word Toxic was chosen over words like 'techlash' and 'gaslighting'.

Previous words of the year 2017 includes 'youthquake' and 'post-truth'.

The word "Toxic" is derived from Latin term - Toxicus. It means poisoning.

Answer 2

The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic.

The adjective toxic is defined as ‘poisonous’ and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning ‘poisoned’ or ‘imbued with poison’.

But the word’s deadly history doesn’t start there. The medieval Latin term was in turn borrowed from the Latin toxicum, meaning ‘poison’, which has its origins in the Greek toxikon pharmakon – lethal poison used by the ancient Greeks for smearing on the points of their arrows. Interestingly, it is not pharmakon, the word for poison, that made the leap into Latin here, but toxikon, which comes from the Greek word for ‘bow’, toxon.