Friday, December 15, 2023

Lexicon Lift: 5 Daily Words (Are you familiar with these? And in what ways do you use these words?) - December 15, 2023

 Word:  Resorted

  • Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
  • Meaning: Turning to someone or something for assistance; have recourse to.
  • Example: In desperation, they resorted to tactics such as strapping small bombs to dogs’ backs and sending them to blow up German tanks.

 

Word: Causality

  • Parts of Speech: Noun
  • Meaning: Connection between a cause and its result or consequence.
  • Example: Sometimes it is difficult to figure out the Causality of the stomach ache, it could be due to stress or something you ate.

 

Word: Quantifiable

  • Parts of Speech: Adjective
  • Meaning: Expressible as quantity; relating to or susceptible to measurement.
  • Example: Rather than give him any quantifiable amount of time, I thought, why would I want to do that?

 

Word: Lessen

  • Parts of Speech: Verb
  • Meaning: To lessen is to make smaller, reduce, or weaken; decrease in size.
  • Example: The smoke had lessened, but it still wafted out the door, a dark, hazy cloud covering the entire area.

 

Word: astute

  • Parts of Speech: Adjective
  • Meaning: Marked by practical, hardheaded intelligence; Someone who is astute, is clever and has good judgment.
  • Example:  An astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease.

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