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

                                                            

 

 Word: Impassable

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Impossible to travel along or over.
• Example: Some of the roads are impassable because they are covered with water.
• After the heavy snow, many roads were impassable.

 

Word: Contrast

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Compare two people or things to show the difference between them.
• The state of being strikingly different from something else; difference; dissimilarity; disparity.
• Example: People contrasted her with her sister.
• The day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine.

 

Word: Reckless

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Dangerous and without care or concern for negative effects.
• Careless, heedless, or thoughtless.
• Example: His behavior was reckless in the extreme.

 

Word: Refrain

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Stop oneself from doing something.
• Abstain, hold back, stop oneself, withhold.
• Example: Please refrain from smoking.
• She could not refrain from weeping at these words.

 

Word: Pulse

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Throb or beat rhythmically, vibrate, palpitate, beat, pound, thud, thump.
• Example:  The basketball courts pulsed with the vibrant energy of youth.