The European Union’s loss is the English vocabulary’s gain. We’re talking about Brexit, a new word stemming from the news.

The English language evolves all the time. New words are born and old words change meanings. This evolution is part of what makes writing exciting. Here are 10 new or newly coined words to take note of.

There are about one million English words, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. If you’re a writer, you have plenty to choose from. You have no reason to resort to overused words that have become meaningless.

As a writer, the AP Stylebook is my bible. I’ve changed jobs, from journalism to P.R. and now marketing, but I continue to follow it—except for its rule against the Oxford comma. I follow Strunk and White’s rule, instead. You would do well to do the same.

It’s easy to blame Google for our tendency to turn nouns into verbs. We all say, “Just Google it,” instead of “Search it on Google.” This inclination, however, goes back a long way.

Bad news sometimes turns into “bad” or negative words. Just take the example of Ethan Couch, the Texas teen and the source of a new negative word: affluenza. Other words such as Hispandering and swatting also originated from incidents reported in the news.

The most remarkable thing about Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) in Ridley Scott’s blockbuster movie, “The Martian,” is his ingenuity in troubleshooting while stranded on Mars. You could say that he MacGyvered his way out of Mars with the help of duct tape, rocks, tarp, and whatever material was at hand. MacGyver is a good example of a word originating from popular culture that’s now entrenched in our vocabulary.

I’m not a sports fan, but a recent story quoting a soccer coach who said he “appreciates the enormity of the task at hand” caught my attention. What evil task did this coach have? Or did he mean to say enormousness?