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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which word has been chosen as the Oxford University Press Children’s Word of the Year 2021?
A
Anxiety
B
Coronavirus
C
Sanitizer
D
Isolation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Anxiety is the 2021 Oxford Children’s Word of the Year. It’s probably not suprising there’s been a significant growth in the vocabulary of mental health and wellbeing, with teachers finding young people more able to express their feelings in the classroom in the wake of the pandemic, school closures and isolation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Previous Oxford Children’s Word of the Year include anxiety (2021), coronavirus (2020), Brexit (2019), plastic (2018), Trump (2017), and refugee (2016).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oxford University Press (OUP) has picked up ‘Anxiety’ as the Children’s Word of the Year 2021, based on their recent research. Apart from “anxiety” (21%), “Challenging” (19%), “isolate” (14%), “Wellbeing” (13%) and “resilience” (12%) were the children’s top five words.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Queen’ has been chosen by UK’s children as the word of the year for 2022, as per a research by Oxford University Press (OUP). While ‘Queen’ topped the voting, the second most voted word was “happy", followed by the word “chaos".

Detailed explanation-5: -perseverance. Cambridge Dictionary has announced perseverance as its Word of the Year 2021.

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