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This Year's New Words

Language naturally reflects popular culture; every time there's a new idea, we need a way to communicate it. With that out of the way, The Oxford Dictionary of English (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary) put out its new words today: chill pill chillax turducken bargainous staycation fussbudget vuvuzela national treasure buzzkill social media microblogging netbook dictionary attack paywall freemium automagically carbon capture and storage geoengineering toxic debt deleveraging overleveraged quantitative easing exit strategy overthink catastrophizing soft skills matchy-matchy LBD frenemy cheeseball cool hunter hikikomori steampunk tweetup bromance wardrobe malfunction defriend Interweb hater How many do you know? What word needs to be an official word but isn't?