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

                                                             

Word: Dread  

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Anticipate with great apprehension or fear.
• Example: "It’s not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow,” she says.

 

Word: Bittersweet

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
• Example: This last New Year’s Eve, though was very emotional and bittersweet in our house.

 

Word: Slam

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Shut forcefully and loudly.
• Example: If my life were a movie, this scene of me and Dylan would get slammed by critics for over-the-top-shadowing.

 

Word: Meticulous

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Showing great attention to detail, Very careful and precise.
• Example: Rather than showing Dylan and Logan the proper way to do it - carefully and meticulously - I just let them have at it haphazardly.

 

Word: Haphazard

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Lacking any obvious principle of organization, unplanned, unsystematic, random, unmethodical.
• Example: Rather than showing Dylan and Logan the proper way to do it - carefully and meticulously - I just let them have at it haphazardly.

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References

Book: The Last Lecture

Word Meanings: Google Search and Vocabulary.com, apple lookup.