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

                                                              

 

 Word: Devise

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Plan or Invent a complex procedure, system, or mechanism by careful thought.
• Example: Your principal duty is to devise, implement, and manage a backup and recovery strategy.

 

Word: Drape

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: The manner in which fabric hangs or falls; Place casually.
• Example: Within seconds, the deflating envelope draped onto the ground.

 

Word: Trotting

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: To trot is move faster than walking, but not quite a full-out run.
• Example: The ballooner came trotting over to us. “Wait wait!” he said. “You ordered the wedding package! It comes with a bottle of champagne!”. 

 

Word: Obsess

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Be preoccupied with something; Haunt like a ghost; pursue.
• Example: Jai spent the entire day obsessing over how to explain everything to Ricky when he got home from Club Babalu. 

 

Word: Root

• Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb
• Meaning: Come into existence, Originate; Become settled or establishedand stable in one’s residence or life style.
• Example: As she’d soon learn, my measured response was rooted in my upbringing.