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

                                                                         

 

Word:  Formidable

• Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun
• Meaning: Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.
• Example: The most formidable brick wall I ever encountered in my life was just five feet, six inches tall, and absolutely beautiful.

 

Word: Adept

• Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun
• Meaning: Very proficient or skilled at something.
• Example: I was always pretty adept at charging through the brick walls in my academic and professional life.

 

Word: Courtship

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: A period during which a couple develops a romantic relationship.
• Example: I didn’t tell the audience the story about my courtship with my wife.

 

Word: Compulsion

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something.
• Example: I felt no compulsion to settle down.

 

Word: Tenured

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Having or denoting a permanent post, especially as a teacher or a professor.
• Example:  Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better.

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

                                                                           

 Word: Culminate

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Describes a high point or a Climactic stage in a process; end.
• Example: The goal of a Major League football team is to have their season culminate in a World Series victory.

 

Word: Conform

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Comply with rules, standards, or laws, to adapt to fit in with new conditions.
• Example: If you travel to a foreign country, you should conform to the local customs and adjust your usual wardrobe to a more modest one.

 

Word: Artisan

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An Artisan has both the creativity and the skill to make a product.
• Example: Next to the straw market is the woodcarvers’ lane, where local artisans demonstrate their crafts and sell them made of wood.

 

Word: Climactic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Consisting of or causing a climax
• Example: Slowly and climactically, Powell and Donovan finished a graphic and resounding story (I, Robot).

 

Word: Grizzled

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Having dark heirs mixed with grey or white.
• Example:  Your dad’s grizzled beard might need a trim by the end of your two-week camping trip.

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

                                                           

 Word: Auditory

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Process of hearing.
• Example: If someone says "Surrender Dorothy" and you hear "Where's the laundry," you have an auditory problem.

 

Word: Tactile

• Parts of Speech: Adjective 
• Meaning: Relating to the sense of touch.
• Example: I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration (Fahrenheit 451).

 

Word: Kinesthetic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: The sensory perception of the movement.
• Example: If you're interested in kinesthetic questions, you might consider going into physical therapy as a career.

 

Word: Autonomous

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Describes the things that function separately or independently.
• Example: The partitioning of India created several separate and autonomous jute economies.

 

Word: Aural

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Of or Pertaining to hearing.
• Example:  If you have excellent aural abilities, it means that your ears work well. Aural means "pertaining to hearing."

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

                                                                 

Word: Straddle

• Parts of Speech: Verb/Noun
• Meaning: When you straddle something, you sit on it with one leg on each side, such as straddling a horse or fence.
• Example: Storage for a single object cannot straddle the two kinds of tablespaces.

 

Word: Queasy

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Queasy defines a feeling of nervousness, anxiety, or uneasiness.
• Example: The experience is not like that parasailing trip you took on a small boat where everyone was queasy by the end of the trip. 

 

Word: Amenable

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Disposed or willing to comply, liable to answer to a higher authority.
• Example: But freshers don't always know how much thought goes into planning dining and how amenable the staff are to catering to special diets.

 

Word: Rambunctious

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Noisy and out of control.
• Example: Kids can be rambunctious when they are with their friends.

 

Word: Disembarked

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Leave a ship or aircraft or other vehicle.
• Example:  The passengers disembarked at Tampa Bay port.

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

                                                                          

 Word: Intertextuality

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The relation between texts, especially literary ones.
• Example: Every text is a product of Intertextuality.
• This story describes the relationship between Irony and Intertextuality.

 

Word: Inherent

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: belonging to or being a part of the nature of a person or thing.
• Example: I tend to turn our inherent fear of failing into the fear of failing to meet my potential.

 

Word: Mosaic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: A decoration on a surface made by setting small pieces of glass, tile, or stone of different colors into another material to make pictures or patterns.
• Example: Just like a mosaic, our lives are made up of many individual moments, experiences, and choices.

 

Word: Interpretation

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The action of explaining the meaning of something.
• Example: The dispute is based on two widely differing interpretations of the law.

 

Word: Dialogic

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Relating to, characterized by, or participating in the dialogue.
• Example:  A teaching and learning strategy called, “Dialogic Learning” is centered on conversation and engagement.

 

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

                                                                    

Word: Intrepid

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Bold, Brave, and Fearless.
• Example: The realm of rock climbing was conquered by intrepid adventurers, turning it into a realm of conquest.

 

Word: Harmonious

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Tuneful, Melodious, Not discordant, sweet-sounding.
• Example: The Arcade hummed with the harmonious clatter of players.

 

Word: Conquest

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Conquer, Vanquish, Defeat, Beat, Trounce.
• Example: The realm of rock climbing was conquered by intrepid adventurers, turning it into a realm of conquest.

 

Word: Triumph

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: A great victory or achievement, Conquest, Success, Achievement.
• Example: The domain of rock climbing was triumphed over by daring adventurers, transforming it into a realm of conquest.

 

Word: Clatter

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: To make a loud rattling sound, A continuous rattling sound of hard objects falling or striking each other.
• Example: The Arcade hummed with the harmonious clatter of players.

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 Word: Impassable

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Impossible to travel along or over.
• Example: Some of the roads are impassable because they are covered with water.
• After the heavy snow, many roads were impassable.

 

Word: Contrast

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Compare two people or things to show the difference between them.
• The state of being strikingly different from something else; difference; dissimilarity; disparity.
• Example: People contrasted her with her sister.
• The day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine.

 

Word: Reckless

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Dangerous and without care or concern for negative effects.
• Careless, heedless, or thoughtless.
• Example: His behavior was reckless in the extreme.

 

Word: Refrain

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Stop oneself from doing something.
• Abstain, hold back, stop oneself, withhold.
• Example: Please refrain from smoking.
• She could not refrain from weeping at these words.

 

Word: Pulse

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Throb or beat rhythmically, vibrate, palpitate, beat, pound, thud, thump.
• Example:  The basketball courts pulsed with the vibrant energy of youth.

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

                                                            

 

 Word: Galley

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The Kitchen in a ship or aircraft.
• Example: He cleaned the Galley.

 

Word: Infer

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Conclude, deduce.
• Example: His own nature could be inferred from the nature of his work.

 

Word: Arouse

• Parts of Speech: 
• Meaning: Provoke, evoke, or awaken a feeling, response, or emotion.
• Example: I don’t want to arouse the neighbor’s curiosity.

 

Word: Vivisection

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: The practice of performing a surgery on a living organism for experimental purposes.
• Example: They have been anti-vivisection campaigners for years.

 

Word: Sclerosis

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Abnormal hardening of body tissue, excessive resistance to change.
• Example:  The challenge was to avoid Institutional sclerosis.

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  Word: Imagineer

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: A person who is skilled at putting creative ideas into practice.
• Example: So I dashed off my letters of application to Walt Disney Imagineering.

 

Word: Persistent

• Parts of Speech: Adjective
• Meaning: Continuing to exist or endure over a prolonged period of time.
• Example: I was ridiculously persistent, and I kept getting passed on and on until I was connected to a guy named Jon.

 

Word: Parrot

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
• Meaning: Repeat mechanically; A vividly colored bird.
• Example: It’s easy to look smart when you are parroting smart people.

 

Word: Sabbatical

• Parts of Speech: Noun/Adjective
• Meaning: A period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel.
• Example: After i explained the concept of sabbaticals, he thought it would be a fine idea to have me spend mine with his team.

 

Word: Hypothesize

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Make a really good educated guess.
• Example: And so I asked lots of data-seeking questions, and found myself hypothesizing along with the doctors.

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

                                                                            

 

 Word: Predicament

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning:  A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.
• Example: If you are engaged with somebody but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament.

 

Word: Comprehend

• Parts of Speech: Verb
• Meaning: Understand, grasp, take-in. Get the meaning of something,  become aware of through the senses.
• Example: When you comprehend something, you grasp its meaning.

 

Word: Interpretation

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious.
• A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
• Example: The first interpretation is mainly true but not very significant, but not very significant; the second would be significant, but is untrue (The Invention of Science).

 

Word: Metadata

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Data about data.
• A library catalog is metadata because it describes publications.
• Example: Then cataloguers describe the object physically and add context and metadata (Washington PostSep 13, 2016).

 

Word: Cynicism

• Parts of Speech: Noun
• Meaning: Cynicism is the feeling of distrust or that something isn’t going to work out well.
• Example:  Some people feel cynicism when politicians makes big promises.
• How, in this age of cynicism, could I convince my audience that I'd really won these things? (The Last Lecture).