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I subscribe to an online page that talks about word trivia. I mainly do it for the daily vocabulary tests. At least once a day they ask for you to choose the correct definition of a word, usually a ...

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YOLO, Fuhgeddaboudit and more than 1,000 new words and phrases have been included in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). 'YOLO', an acronym meaning 'you only live once', has ...