Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
"The Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year for 2020 include blursday, doomscrolling and infodemic," said author Cynthia Levinson.
"Time Magazine’s include the first two of these, as well as social distancing and quarantini," she added.
But Levinson's personal word of the year is "hunker."
"Because that’s what I did — hunker at home from March 14, 2020, the date of my last trip-of-the-year to a grocery store, until Jan. 8, 2021, the date I was unblinded by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial," she explained.
Levinson writes mostly nonfiction for kids, and spent almost all of her hunkering time writing. "Fortunately, writing entails a lot of seat-in-chair," she said. "So, staying home was actually conducive to getting work done."