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Published 09 Jan, 2016 07:02am

Word of the week

Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Irrits’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary

Irrits

Plural noun

Definition: Feelings of extreme annoyance or irritation.

Examples: “His constant criticising gives me the irrits.”

“Things slipping and sliding every which way may give you a case of the irrits this week.”

“They don’t like him in the class; he gives them the irrits.”

“Do you know the kind of people who really give me the irrits?”

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 9th, 2015

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