Lexicon Lift: 5 Daily Words (Are you familiar with these? And how do you use these words?)

           

 

Word: Acculturation

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Related to the world culture; The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.
• Example: Acculturation is what happens when you live with French people for a while and start going “ooh la la” and eating snails.

 

Word: Remediation

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Correcting a fault; Act of correcting an error or fault or an evil.
• Example: By the time the architects visited in 2015, the remediation was well underway, and the vision for Powerhouse was clear - New York Times, May 17, 2023.

 

Word: Conceptualise

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: have the idea for; conceive.
• Example: I learned that monogamy doesn’t need to be as strict as we conceptualise it growing up - The GuardianSep 25, 2018

 

Word: Integral

• Parts of Speech: Adjective/Noun
• Meaning: Something that is integral is significant or necessary; 
• Example: It’s an integral part of what made the community strong.
• If you are an integral part of the team, it means the team cannot function without you.

 

Word: Impetus

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Force behind something, whether it is a boulder rolling down a hill or a person making decision; A force that moves something along.
• Example:  My career needed a fresh impetus; I could contact someone for help.