India, March 8 -- Some terms won't seem to go away; others have had their meanings forever altered. Zoom, for instance, will never be just about movement again. What other words came to describe or typify those years? Here are a few lesser-known ones.

* Pandemic babies and Quaranteens: For those born or entering their teens between 2020 and 2022, life took a unique twist. Babies struggled to develop social skills but effortlessly crashed their parents' Zoom calls. Meanwhile, Quaranteens rode out the emotional rollercoaster of adolescence within a digital bubble.

* Anthropause: This is the term that came to define those long weeks when airports were stilled, tourism halted, even movement within cities stalled. Wildlife took to the quiete...