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Top 10 new words in the engish language.

Language is a living thing, words die if they are not used and new ones are born because of novelties we come across such as the advancements in technologies, fashions, new things we need to name.  Linguistic Society of America Do you know the meaning of: Voluntourism. Answer:  People who volunteer and sightsee. FoMo: Answer: Fearing to miss out on something MoFo: Answer: Acronym for Mother Fuker. Freegan: Answer: recycling throwaway foods. Uber: Answer: Ride-sharing Taxi App Photobomb: Answere: Insert yourself into someone's photo. Stanky: Answer: Smelling unpleasant. Handsy: Answer:  tending to touch other people that is inappropriate or unwanted. Manspreading: Answer: Man seating legs apart taking too much space on a seat. Awesomesauce: Answer: Something excellent, great, spectacular. Do you kno...

Martin Luther King, Jr. In his own " Words"

  Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else?  The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.   He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.   He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.   A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. A right delayed is a right denied. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom....