Pronounced: ih-GREE-jus, adj
Notes: I first ran across this in a comedy (see the Background / Comments in the next post)
Yesterday’s word
The word voluntourism is “tourism in which travelers do volunteer work”
First usage
This word is pretty recent; in came into English in the 1990s
Background / Comments
As you probably have guessed, our word is a blend of volunteer and tourism. I haven’t run across one, but they are becoming more common (apparently).
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 