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Here's what we had to say about exposure in Our Word of the Year was exposurewhich highlighted the year's Ebola virus outbreak, shocking acts of violence both abroad and in the US, and widespread theft of personal information.

The national debate can arguably be summarized by the question: Privacy We got serious in It was a year of real awakening to complicity in various sectors of society, from politics to pop culture. Despite being chosen as the Word of the Year, xenophobia is not to be celebrated.

Racial identity also held a lot of debate inafter Rachel Dolezal, a white woman presenting herself as a black woman, said she identified as biracial or transracial. And so, we named tergiversate the Word of the Year.

Tergiversate means "to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect Dating voor muziekliefhebbers a cause, subject, etc. From the pervading sense of vulnerability surrounding Ebola to the visibility into acts of crime or misconduct that ignited critical conversations about race, gender, and violence, various senses of exposure were out in the open this year.

Things don't get less serious in Here's an excerpt from our release that year that gives a pretty good explanation for our choice: Our choice for Word of the Year is as much about what is visible as it is about what is not.

We must not let this continue to be the norm. It is an opportunity for us to reflect on the language and ideas that represented each year.

Bluster In a year known for the Occupy movement and what became known as the Arab Spring, our lexicographers chose bluster as their Word of the Year for Xenophobia Inwe selected xenophobia as our Word of the Year.

Our Word of the Year in reflected the many facets of identity that surfaced that year.

If we do, then we are all complicit. Has there been too much? So, take a stroll down memory lane to remember all of our past Word of the Year selections.

From our Word of the Year announcement: Tergiversate This rare word was chosen to represent because it described so much of the world around us. Here's an excerpt from our Word of the Year announcement in