Word of the Day: December 3, 2020

<p>Today's word is bleak, but it puts name to a no doubt recognizable activity these days. The word is a noun, defined as: "the practice of obsessively checking online news for updates &nbsp;with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative expectation fuels a compulsion to continue looking for updates in a self-perpetuating cycle." Can you guess what it is?</p>