Voiceover king Morgan Freeman can make any word in the dictionary sound respectable.

Case in point: After the word "twerk" was added to Oxford Dictionaries Online this week, the 76-year-old enthusiastically narrated its definition during Morning Express with Robin Meade.

The dictionary's official definition of twerk is: "Dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance."

See also: Twerk and Selfie Added to Dictionary

Freeman managed to stay awake, unlike his appearance during a live TV interview in June.

In addition to twerk, Oxford Dictionaries Online (not to be confused with the more official publication Oxford English Dictionary) also added popular new words such as selfie, digital detox, Bitcoin, BYOD, emoji, FOMO, geek chic, phablet, srsly and TL;DR.

Miley Cyrus famously demonstrated twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards, inciting a flurry of reactions on Twitter (4.5 million mentions during the initial broadcast) and on Facebook.

Despite the social backlash, Cyrus' music is selling well on iTunes.

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