Every year new words enter the dictionary but new words are also created by various generations.
There is no doubt that sometimes it can be quite difficult to keep up with hot
and trending slang terms on social media and beyond. So in today's lesson I'll be
joined by Cassé and we'll be sharing 10 of the hottest trending words and their meaning
so that you can start understanding and using them in 2022. Because here at RealLife English we guide
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So our first word is one of my favorites. It's not necessarily new,
but it's definitely here to stay and a hot and trending word. The word is "cringe."
This means that something makes you feel embarrassed, awkward or uncomfortable.
It makes you cringe. There's even a facial expression for this which is something like...
And an example sentence might be "I cringe when I look at old photos of me in High School."
So this word has been one of the trendiest words recently. It's the word "lowkey." So lowkey is
used as an adjective to describe something that you might not want others to know explicitly
or to describe a feeling or desire without seeming too eager. For example, you might confess to
lowkey loving BTS's new song. Or to lowkey using Tinder. It also has a similar meaning to "sort of"
or "kind of." So, for example, you could say "I'm lowkey happy that class was cancelled."
It's important to note that vaccines have been around for decades though and it's just
mainly because of this pandemic that has affected the whole world that this has
become a really trending word. Vaxxed means that you've received a vaccine. So this one is a little
bit controversial given that some people have been labeled anti-vaxxers meaning that they are
against the covid vaccine and maybe others. But this word has become a huge part of our lexicon
thanks to COVID-19. Some variations are "double vaxxed" and "fully vaxxed."
So this came about when people started receiving the second dose of this particular vaccine
and maybe if you're fully vaxxed you receive two doses or even the booster shot as well.
Our next word is tea and there are multiple ways you can use it for example if you are "sipping the
tea" you are minding your own business. However if you are "spilling the tea" or "having tea"
you're about to share some juicy gossip. Vibe is a feeling that someone gives you,
for example, you could like or dislike someone's vibe because they give you good or bad vibes. You
could also tell someone not to "kill your vibe" meaning you don't want them to affect or ruin
your good mood or feelings. Like in the famous Kendrick Lamar song of the same name.
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So this next word is quite interesting, it's the word "Extra." So we use it when someone is
either "over the top", "overreacting" or "overdressed" for an occasion.
"Binge watch" is super trendy now given all the streaming services on offer.
Not having to wait each week for a new episode of a show in most cases means that we can watch
consecutive episodes of a show in a short frame of time and basically binge watch it.
Are there any shows that you binged watched so far this year? Let us know down in the comments.
So this word is quite spicy it was made popular by Jada Pinkett Smith during one of her red
table talks. It's the word "situationship." A situationship is when a relationship
is more than friends but less than a couple. Staycation is a word that again became popular
due to COVID and it being harder to travel. This word has been trending for a couple of years now
but it's here to stay for sure. It combines "stay" and "vacation" to form "staycation" meaning a
holiday or vacation you take in your home country so you don't have to travel too far. For example,
"Next week we're having a staycation, we're going to a really nice hotel by the beach."
Metaverse is a word you're bound to hear more of in 2022 thanks to Mark Zuckerberg. The Metaverse
is a digital reality that combines elements of social media, gaming, augmented reality,
virtual reality and cryptocurrencies to allow people to interact virtually.
So there you have it our top 10 hot and trending new words for 2022. I hope you enjoyed this lesson
and learnt some new vocabulary. If there are any that you think that we missed,
please share them in the comments. And now if you want to keep learning, check out this lesson next,