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

                                                           

 

 

 Word: Blissfully

• Parts of Speech: Adverb
• Meaning: In a manner characterized by extreme happiness or joy.
• Example: No woman, even the right kind, would expect to settle down blissfully into that.

 

Word: Offbeat

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Unconventional or Unusual.
• Example: She figured I’m obviously a pretty offbeat and exciting guy.
• She’s a little offbeat, but she’s a wonderful actress.

 

Word: Comparative

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Perceptable by comparison, relative.
• Example: A thirty-one-year-old grad student in comparative literature was working part-time in the UNC computer science department.

 

Word: Laureate

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A person who is honored with an award for an outstanding creative or intellectual achievement.
• Example: Her job was to host visitors, whether Nobel laureates or Girl Scout troops

 

Word: Funky

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Frightened, panicky, cool, trendy, fashionable, having or using a strong dance rhythm.
• Example:  And then found the links to my funkier personal information.