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

                                                                             

Word: Stroke

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An act of hitting or striking someone or something; a blow.
• Example: I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback. 

 

Word: Pragmatic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
• Example: That was a pragmatic, statistically valid way to look at themselves.

 

Word: Peers 

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Fellow, colleague, partner, co-worker.
• Example: Did his peers think he was working hard?

 

Word: Quartile

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Each of four groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values according to a particular variable.
• Example: For one course I taught, I’d had the students assess each other in the same way, but only let them know the quartile in which they ranked. 

 

Word: Obnoxious

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Extremely unpleasant.
• Example:  I remember a conversation, I had with one student whom others found particularly obnoxious.

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References

Book: The Last Lecture

Word Meanings: Google Search, Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, Apple Lookup.