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

                                                                     

 

 Word: Redaction

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The process of editing text for a publication.
• Example: The author himself never chose to establish a definitive redaction.

 

Word: Earnest

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Serious and Sincere.
• Example: I will take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. 

 

Word: Parody

• Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb
• Meaning: An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
• Example: “Hip” people love parodies. But there’s no such thing as a timeless parody, is there? 

 

Word: Masquerade

• Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb
• Meaning: A false show or pretense.
• Example: Fashion, by the way, is commerce masquerading as hip.

 

Word: Abhor

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Regard with disgust and hatred.
• Example:  And that may be why I rejected it and abhorred it.

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