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Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Supplementary Reading * * * * * * Alcoholic, the parent of all addictive words, has been with us for over a century. It was first attested in 1891. In the 1960s, someone had the idea of taking “-holic” as a suffix meaning “addict”, and a whole new category of addictions followed. One of the first and most important is “workaholic”, which was announced in the 1968. The appearance of “workaholic” in a book named Confessions of a Workaholic in 1971 propelled that term and prompted many writers to start using the suffixes “-aholic”, “-holic”, or “-oholic” to describe “all-consuming obsessions,” not all of them so serious. B R _ Origin of Workaholic 1 Origin of Workaholic B R _ Origin of Workaholic 2 In the 1970s, if not obsessed with work, we could be addicted to play, as in golfaholic, footballaholic, basketball-oholic, or just plain leisureholic; to foods, as in beefaholic, or ice creamaholic; and to substances, as in mariholic for marijuana, and tobaccoholic. An American could be a book-oholic, note-oholic, or phone-oholic. Other obsessions for which authors coined terms with “-aholic” in the 1970s include worry, news, credit, punning, shopping, and junk. B R _ Blank Filling 2 Definition of workaholic If a person is a workaholic, he’s got to be driven to things. In the workdays, they just keep going, keep themselves. And a lot of stress leads to many problems, and diseases. compulsive need accomplish pushing anxieties B R _ Origin of Workaholic 1 Different w