Hack, rizz, slay and other cringe-worthy words to avoid in 2024
Do your New Year's resolutions include improving your vocabulary? Then the 2024 Banished Words List from Lake Superior State is for you.
Just a few weeks ago, the term "rizz" was being celebrated for its pop culture prominence, achieving iconic status as the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. But at the end of the day, its impact on modern language is actually cringe-worthy, say the folks at Michigan's Lake Superior State University.
The word — which Gen Zers have shortened from charisma and adopted to mean style,the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner — is one of 10 that appears on LSSU's , documenting whatfaculty says should be omitted from our collective vocabularies heading into the new year.
