I will second "optic." Don't know which cretin first used that, but it sure attracted a flock of dumbasses!
Issy, maybe you need a thread for 2017. Here's a word I'd never heard before last night when Anderson Cooper said it 4 times then I heard it again somewhere else then tonight, Paul Ryan, in a different context. "Conflated."
That just means you have a bunkie vocabulary. Go check your blood soaked foam and see if you got Wyle E. Yet