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

                                                                                   

 

 

 Word:  Nucleus

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The central and most important part of an Object, group, or movement, forming the basis for its activity.
• Example: To preserve nature and the Land, they donated the nucleus land for the expansion of the National Park

 

Word: Tenuous

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Very weak or slight.
• Example: Never been brave enough to chance it, not alone, not with such a tenuous hold on her disguise.

 

Word: Conscripted

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: enlist someone compulsorily, typically into the armed services.
• Example: They were conscripted into the army.

 

Word: Flourish

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A bold or extravagant gesture or action made especially to attract the attention of others.
• Example: He sets the cups between them with a flourish, turning the handles just so, as he tells her, it is coffee.

 

Word: Sheaf (Sheaves: Plural Noun)

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A bundle of objects of one kind, especially papers.
• Example: Pass sheaves of paper back and forth.

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