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

                                                                            

 

 Word: Predicament

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:  A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.
• Example: If you are engaged with somebody but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament.

 

Word: Comprehend

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Understand, grasp, take-in. Get the meaning of something,  become aware of through the senses.
• Example: When you comprehend something, you grasp its meaning.

 

Word: Interpretation

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious.
• A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
• Example: The first interpretation is mainly true but not very significant, but not very significant; the second would be significant, but is untrue (The Invention of Science).

 

Word: Metadata

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Data about data.
• A library catalog is metadata because it describes publications.
• Example: Then cataloguers describe the object physically and add context and metadata (Washington PostSep 13, 2016).

 

Word: Cynicism

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Cynicism is the feeling of distrust or that something isn’t going to work out well.
• Example:  Some people feel cynicism when politicians makes big promises.
• How, in this age of cynicism, could I convince my audience that I'd really won these things? (The Last Lecture).