2020
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Pandemic
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Quarantine
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COVID-19
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Lockdown
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cambridge Dictionary has named ‘quarantine’ as Word of the Year 2020. The word has been named the word of the year based on data that showed that it was one of the most highly searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
Detailed explanation-2: -But many players would have been rewarded for demonstrating Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2021: perseverance. In 2022, the American spelling of humor caused the second highest spike.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year is woman. 1. an adult female person.
Detailed explanation-4: -/pænˈdem.ɪk/ (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants: In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gaslighting Merriam-Webster dictionary chose ‘gaslighting’, after a 1, 740% rise in searches for the term this year. According to the OED it means “manipulating (a person) by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity”.