Episode 4 Vocabulary: 2025 Recap

Happy New Year everyone! We decided to end the year by talking about the most notable events of this year. Here's some key vocab from this week's episode.

Level 1 - Key Words

• Trends - things that become popular in society (often for a short amount of time)

• Debt - when you borrow money and have to pay it back, you are in debt

• Brainrot (slang) - content online that is funny but has no meaning

• For ages - for a long time

• Originate - to begin existing

Level 2 - General vocabulary

• Pretty much (casual) - another way of saying "basically, yes"

• Feed - on social media, your "for you page" or screen of posts is called your feed

• Hysteria - when someone goes insane, they are hysterical. Hysteria often refers to when a group of people all go insane over something

• Proceeds - the money earned from an event

• Banger (slang) - a good song

• Transcend - to exceed

• Made-up - not real, fake, imaginary 

• Pinnacle - the peak of something, the best part of something

• -ization/-ification - a suffix added to existing words to make a new word, with the meaning of turning into or becoming something

• Bleed into - to spread into

• God knows how long - for a really long time

• Credibility - how trustworthy or believable something is

  
  

Level 3 - Difficult/specific words and phrases

• In a nutshell - in summary

• Privy to (something) - aware of something that not everyone knows

• Track record - someone's history of actions, e.g. "I have a bad track record with relationships"

• In the midst (of) - during, in the middle of

• Live in my brain rent free - a common phrase online, used when you think about something constantly. E.g. "Harry Styles lives in my brain rent free"

• Drop off (slang) - to lose popularity

We will be taking a break for new year. Our podcast will be back on January 7th.