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The Royal Spanish Academy has chosen 14 words that explain 2019 and has disseminated them as the most significant of the year: feminize, Eurosceptic, constitution, self-determination or climate are part of the selection and have in the RAE statement with a brief explanation of the Grounds for its topicality.

For example, in the case of feminizing - ' giving a female presence or character to something or someone' - the social movement of feminism and the impulse for equality, improvements for women in Arab countries, the election of the first President of the European Commission or worldwide protests to end violence against women.

Constitution - 'Fundamental law of a State, with a higher rank than the rest of the laws, which defines the regime of the rights and freedoms of citizens and defines the powers and institutions of the political organization' - has been rescued by the "validity and news "of the Magna Carta" as a set of rights, duties and freedoms in a framework that allows coexistence ".

In the case of 'climate' - 'set of atmospheric conditions that characterize a region' - we bet on the "relevance" of ecology, the celebration in Madrid of the Climate Summit , the Amazon fires, the Mar Menor disaster or the declaration of Climate Emergency by the EU, among other notable events of the year.

Regarding Eurosceptic - "who doubts the value of the European Union's political projects" -, the SAR has indicated that "after years of prosperity" under the framework of the European Union, some countries and their citizens "call into question the integration of the Old Continent, with Brexit as the tip of the iceberg. "

The word self - determination also appears - "the decision of the citizens of a given territory on their future political status" - due to the crisis in Catalonia, which "continues to leave this term as one of the most relevant of the year that is dismissed." To this election is added the welfare state , which "remains the maximum guarantor of equal opportunities."

Other words included are progress , due to facts such as scientific advances, promising medical studies on cancer or Alzheimer's, astronomical discoveries, implantation of renewable energies, reduction of the ozone hole or the arrival of 5G.

Also sport , for the "epic victories thanks to the effort of its protagonists", highlighting examples such as the Spanish women's and men's basketball team, the cyclist Egan Bernal, the tennis player Rafa Nadal, or the gymnast Simone Biles, among others. In the case of trust , the SAR has chosen it for "uncertainty, politics, corruption or Brexit, which tests the trust of the citizen in institutions that traditionally care for and protect rights and freedoms."

To welcome it , it justifies it in cases such as immigration and refugees, which "continue to be front-line news due to economic inequalities between countries and international conflicts."

The elections appear because "there have been several electoral processes in Spanish-speaking countries throughout the year, given the current political fragmentation, reflecting a changing society and with increasingly different sensibilities."

While artificial intelligence is collected because the process of technological advancement is "unstoppable and it is necessary to adapt the whole society so as not to lose the train of progress", the 'school' is also a word of the year for facts such as Pisa report reveals "shortcomings" in the sector.

Finally, it includes triumph in recognition of society and "its commitment to continue generating progress, whether from research, culture, work or sport, or as a social manifestation to make a fairer world: social activism, demonstrations of solidarity or commitment. "

The Lexicography and Communication services have proposed to the Directorate of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) the publication of the words that "best characterize" the political, economic and social events of the year 2019.

The director of the SAR, Santiago Muñoz Machado, explained that "it is not about choosing neologisms" that have appeared throughout the year, because many of these lexical novelties are " ephemeral ". "They disappear with the same promptness with which they appear in the common language," he added.

That is why all the words chosen appear in the Spanish Language Dictionary. The selection, which includes not only words, but also compound forms, has taken into account the most frequent queries to the dictionary, the queries received by the RAE services and the voices that, according to the Academy corpus, present an abundant use.

Also the trends of questions and comments of the followers of the Academy in the main social networks.

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