Question: Which word has been chosen as the Oxford University Press Children’s Word of the Year 2021?
(a) Pandemic
(b) Anxiety
(c) Apprehension
(d) Challenging
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- The Oxford University Press has picked up ‘Anxiety’ as the Children’s Word of the Year 2021, based on their recent research.
- The word was selected based on a survey conducted on around 8,000 children aged 7-14 from 85 schools in the United Kingdom, who were asked to choose the words they most often used while talking about health and wellbeing.
- Apart from “anxiety” (21%), “Challenging” (19%), “isolate” (14%), “Wellbeing” (13%) and “resilience” (12%) were the children’s top five words.
BY: AMIT GUPTA