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Amaze your family and friends with these wild and wonderful words. Use the Word Wizard’s secret code to discover the newly-added dictionary words that match each de nition. Word Wizard’s Secret Code Secret Code Wonderfully Weird Words Word detectives 25 24 23 22 21 = = = = = Z Y W V U 20 19 18 17 16 = = = = = T S R Q P 15 14 13 12 11 = = = = = O N M L K 10 9 8 7 6 = = = = = J I H G F 5 4 3 2 1 = = = = = E D C B A In fact, there is a career for people who write dictionaries and study words. They are called lexicographers . Is that a new word for you? very year, dictionaries add new words. In 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary added 500 words.
The rumbling of your stomach when you’re hungry:
A lexicographer is a person who writes and edits dictionaries. They study words, their meanings, and how people use them. Lexicographers help make sure that words in a
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The way the air smells after it rains:
dictionary are clear and easy to understand. They are like word detectives, always learning new things about language.
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The plastic tip at the end of your shoelaces:
Lexicographers add a word to a dictionary when it’s a word that’s used by a lot of people in largely the same way. One of the new words added to the dictionary in 2022 is a word you and your friends might use. It’s a word that means to throw something. That word is yeet , as in “she just yeeted that ball over the backyard fence.” When lexicographers start hearing a word like yeet again and again, it might be added to the dictionary. How are new words selected?
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The space between your nostrils:
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The name of a TV show from the 1980s, this word is now a verb that means to x something with whatever things you can nd nearby:
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