novichok
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a group of deadly organophosphate nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s to evade restrictions on chemical weapons.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Those still fixated on the problem and not the solution will argue that the United States should take no action on the CWC until Russia “comes clean” about the novichok program under the Memorandum of Understanding."
- "Novichoks are allegedly the deadliest NAs ever produced and are potentially five to eight times more potent than VX."
- "Theresa May has identified the nerve agent used in the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury as a novichok."
- "The poisoning also turned Novichok into something of a Russian calling card."
- "In an earlier interview with the Guardian, a Kremlin insider said that “in half a year or a year, novichok will catch up with Prigozhin,” a reference to the 2020 poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny."
- "A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok was “gobsmacked” when Yulia woke and began trying to get out of bed four days after the attack."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: новичо́к
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
foliant