UFS201 - 4th Vocabulary Entry

10 New Words For Today.


1. Vook
MEANING : A combination of video, text, images and social streams in an electronic book.


2. Wordle
MEANING : 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'.)


3. Trekkie
MEANING : A fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek.


4. Spinnish
MEANING : The language used by spin doctors, spokes-persons, campaign managers, etc. when trying to present information in a favourable light.


5. Staycation
MEANING : A vacation in which you stay at home and relax or visit places close to where you live.


6. Snail mail
MEANING : The standard system of delivering mail which is very slow in contrast to electronic mail.


7. Sofalise/sofalize
MEANING : Stay home and use the internet, phone or other electronic device to communicate with people (social networking, chatting, tweeting, etc.), rather than go out and meet them face to face.


8.Tweetheart
MEANING : A user of the Twitter service who is very popular or admired, or with whom other users communicate a lot


9. Videophile
MEANING : Person who is very interested in watching videos and making recordings, and values high-quality results.


10. Smirt
MEANING : Blend of 'smoke' and 'flirt' Smoking prohibition laws have led to a new sort of social pastime : 'smirting', smokers getting to know each other when outside on the pavement.