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

                                                                     

 

Word: Rhetorical

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Using speech or writing in special ways in order to persuade people or to produce an impressive effect.
• Example: But poor Miss Warren, she answered my rhetorical question (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian).

 

Word: Crucial

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Of great Significance or Value.
• Example: Orderliness is crucial for an effective fighting force (Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever).

 

Word: Anticipate

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Predict and prepare for, be excited or anxious about, and realize beforehand.
• Example: Mother was as easy as I had anticipated (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings).

 

Word: Heliocentric

• Parts of Speech: Adjective 
• Meaning: Having or representing the sun as the center, which means Earth and all other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun.
• Example: A heliocentric universe resonated with kepler’s religious sense, and he embraced it with fervor (Cosmos).

 

Word: Precipitation

• Parts of Speech: 
• Meaning: Rain, snow etc, that falls to the ground.
• The falling to earth of any form of water.
• Example:  All right. There must be pounds of oxalic acid for calcium precipitations (I, Robot).
• The storm brought several inches of precipitation.