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Word Watch Words

track-a-holism

verbicaine

mentor/mentee/manatee?

expediate/expedite

device

fruitloopery

Ebolaphobia

etymology of Ebola

issues

Katie Couric effect

day surgery

scanxiety

pneumonia front

themmie

pollen vortex

gluten-freegan

And the new Scrabble word is…

Word Watch: Round One of the Scrabble Word Showdown

Digital dementia

Conversation/interview

Frailty

Deprescribing

Make up a word — it could wind up in the dictionary

Bikini medicine

Sitting disease

Shell shock

Trench foot/mouth

Fascinoma

Iconic

Churnalism

Anti-vaxxer

Life expectancy of neologisms

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