Word of the Year Quiz

1. Players outside North America generated a surge of dictionary searches after encountering an unfamiliar Wordle solution meaning a home run. Which term became Cambridge Dictionary’s 2022 Word of the Year?

2. After a tiring week, someone stays home in pajamas, eats snacks, and cheerfully rejects social expectations. Which Oxford 2022 winner describes this attitude?

3. Someone praises a friend’s ability to attract people through charm and flirtatious confidence. Which Oxford 2023 Word of the Year fits that quality?

4. After Pluto was reclassified, people began using a new verb to mean demoting or devaluing someone or something. Which term did the American Dialect Society select for 2006?

5. Merriam-Webster linked its 2023 winner to debates about identity, artificial intelligence, and whether something is genuine. Which word was selected?

6. A designer turns discarded fabric into higher-value bags instead of merely processing it as waste. Which Cambridge Dictionary 2019 winner describes this practice?

7. A user shares an inaccurate claim believing it is true, rather than deliberately trying to deceive others. Which Dictionary.com 2018 Word of the Year best describes the claim?

8. Which American Dialect Society 2016 winner metaphorically describes a disastrously mishandled or chaotic situation?

9. Which word, associated with questions about existence and threats to continued survival, was Dictionary.com’s 2019 Word of the Year?

10. A traveler becomes anxious when their phone has no signal and the battery is nearly empty. Which Cambridge Dictionary 2018 winner names this fear?

11. Oxford made an unconventional choice in 2015 by selecting a pictograph rather than an alphabetic word. Which one won?

12. A writer uses a pronoun for a person whose gender is unknown or who identifies as nonbinary. Which Merriam-Webster 2019 Word of the Year is being used?

13. A person repeatedly manipulates someone into doubting their own memory and perception. Which word matching this behavior was Merriam-Webster’s 2022 selection?

14. What distinguished Oxford’s approach to Word of the Year in 2020?

15. A social-media user takes a photograph of themself and posts it online. Which term for that behavior was Oxford’s 2013 Word of the Year?

16. An AI system confidently produces information that is false or unsupported. Which Cambridge Dictionary 2023 winner gained an expanded sense for this behavior?