Thursday, January 25, 2024

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

                                                            


 

 Word: Galley

  • Parts of Speech: Noun
  • Meaning: The Kitchen in a ship or aircraft.
  • Example: He cleaned the Galley.

 

Word: Infer

  • Parts of Speech: Verb
  • Meaning: Conclude, deduce.
  • Example: His own nature could be inferred from the nature of his work.

 

Word: Arouse

  • Parts of Speech: 
  • Meaning: Provoke, evoke, or awaken a feeling, response, or emotion.
  • Example: I don’t want to arouse the neighbor’s curiosity.

 

Word: Vivisection

  • Parts of Speech: Noun
  • Meaning: The practice of performing a surgery on a living organism for experimental purposes.
  • Example: They have been anti-vivisection campaigners for years.

 

Word: Sclerosis

  • Parts of Speech: Noun
  • Meaning: Abnormal hardening of body tissue, excessive resistance to change.
  • Example:  The challenge was to avoid Institutional sclerosis.

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