The Oxford English Dictionary just added these new words. Do you know what they mean?
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The Oxford English Dictionary, which bills itself as the definitive record of the English language, added over 200 new words last month, and some of them may have you ROFL. (For anyone who's avoided the internet, that's an acronym for "rolling on the floor laughing" — and it's one of the new entries.)
The entries range from arts and culture terms like Hitchcockian and Afrofuturism to a series of international foods like mofongo, dopiaza and matcha. There's also the head-scratchingly random entries, like Scooby Snack and starter marriage.
If you pride yourself on your lexicographical mastery, take a crack at the quiz below, and see if you can define these new entries.
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