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

                                                                    

 

 Word: Staccato

• Parts of Speech: Adjective/ Adverb / Noun
• Meaning: A series of short, sharply separated sounds or words.
• Example: I was gasping out of fear in staccato. 

 

Word: Incubator

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An enclosed apparatus providing a controlled environment for the care and protection of premature or unusually small babies.
• Example: He’d been in a so-called “closed-air bassinete,” which is a more benign description of an incubator.

 

Word: Hysterical

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Feeling or showing an extreme and uncontrolled emotion.
• Example: She could have gotten so hysterical that she’d thrown herself into shock.

 

Word: Stricken

• Parts of Speech: Verb / Adjective
• Meaning: Seriously affected by an undesirable condition or an unpleasant feeling.
• Example: I could have been so stricken that I’d have been no help in the surgery room. 

 

Word: Ordeal

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A painful or horrific experience, especially a protracted one.
• Example: Through the whole Ordeal, I don’t think we ever said to each other.