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

                                                                 

Word: Gesture

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Motion of hands or body to express a thought or feeling.
• Something done as an indication of intention.
• Example: A public-relations gesture aimed at distracting attention from the obvious (The Last Lecture).
• A political gesture.
• He gestured his desire to leave.

 

Word: Parabolic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Parabolic symbolizes something or teaches a simple lesson.
• If your grandparent’s stories end with the saying, “And the moral of this story is….” then you can describe them as parabolic.
• Example: Whatever the Plane is called, it’s a sensational piece of machinery. It does parabolic arcs (The Last Lecture).
• Many fable and Bible stories are parabolic.

 

Word: Runaway

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Adjective
• Meaning: A runaway is a person - Often a child or a teenager, who leaves home.
• Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation.
• Example: As the Plane dives, you feel like you are on a Runaway roller coaster ((The Last Lecture).
• A kid who grabs some snacks and hides out all night in his neighbor's treehouse is one kind of runaway.

 

Word: Fathom

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Come to understand.
• Measure the depth of a body of water with a sounding line.
• Example: Being weightless is a sensation hard to fathom when you have been an earthling all your life.
• To fathom something is to understand it thoroughly; it’s usually used in the negative, as in, “I can’t  fathom  why he doesn’t want to go along with us."

 

Word: Earthling

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An inhabitant of the earth.
• In science fiction, people are called earthlings to distinguish themselves from aliens.
• Example: Being weightless is a sensation hard to fathom when you have been an earthling all your life.
• E.T. was definitely not an earthling.