Merriam-Webster has added about 100 new words and senses to the 2007 version of the Merriam-Weber's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (which won't be available in print until this fall.) You can get a list of 20 of the neologisms at http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords07.htm. My favorite of the new words is ginormous, meaning extremely large or humongous, but others that I recognized and was charmed to see on the list include sudoku, speed dating, perfect storm, smackdown and DVR (digital video recorder.) Some of those that I hadn't heard before are listed below, along with their definitions.

• Crunk: a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms
• Microgreen: a shoot of a standard salad plant (as celery or arugula)
• Telenovela: a soap opera produced in and televised in or from many Latin-American countries