10 New ENGLISH WORDS You Need to Learn for 2022

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