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

                                                                

 

 Word:  Hulking

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Of great size and bulk.
• Example: Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy.
• Example: Three hulking battleships.

 

Word: Awe

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Awe is a feeling of fear mixed with respect and wonder.
• Example: Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy.
• Example: The famous professor awed the undergraduates.

 

Word: Wimpy

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Weak and ineffectiveness.
• Someone who is wimpy is extremely ineffective, weak, or fearful.
• Example: I was naturally wimpy and the smallest kid by far.

 

Word: Detriment

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A damage or loss
• Detriment is the hurt or harm resulting from damage, loss, or a bad decision.
• Example: I have seen this as one lesson so many kids ignore, always to their detriment: you have got to get the fundamentals down.

 

Word: Deter

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Turn away from persuasion.
• Deter means to discourage or literally “to frighten away."
• Example:  I was heartbroken, but I was not deterred.