Lexicon Leaders: Words of the Year

① As December turns to January, dictionary-publishers and others name their words of the year.

② For 2017 Merriam-Webster, an American publisher, went with "feminism", in recognition of the activism of the Women's March and the #MeToo movement denouncing sexual harassment.

③ Dictionary.com chose "complicit", much looked-up on its website after Ivanka Trump was asked if she was complicit in her father's actions as president.

④ Oxford Dictionaries puzzled readers with "youthquake", a wave of enthusiasm allegedly spotted several times this year in British politics (though the word itself seems little-used).

⑤ Collins, another dictionary-publisher, went with "fake news", Donald Trump's go-to riposte to unwelcome press.

⑥ Last to announce its choice is the American Dialect Society, which will do so on January 5th at its annual conference, being held in Salt Lake City.

⑦ It will also pick words it deems "most useful" and "most likely to succeed"—plus a "WTF word of the year".

▍生詞好句

lexicon /?l?ks?k(?)n/: n. 詞典；詞匯表

lexicography /?l?ks??k?ɡr?fi/: n. 詞典編纂學(xué)

go with: 順應(yīng) (本意：與……相配)

in recognition of: 對……的表彰

activism /?akt?v?z(?)m/: n. 社會運動

suffrage /?s?fr?d?/: n. 選舉權(quán)

denounce /d??na?ns/: vt. 譴責(zé)

sexual harassment /?har?sm(?)nt, h??rasm(?)nt/: 性騷擾

complicit /k?m?pl?s?t/: adj. 串通的

youthquake /?ju?θkwe?k/: n. 年輕震蕩

allegedly /??l?d??dli/: adv. 據(jù)稱

spot /sp?t/: vt. 瞥見

go-to: adj. 最常使用的；最喜歡的

riposte /r??p?st/: n. 反擊