Word Workout: Building a Muscular Vocabulary in 10 Easy Steps

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Here are examples using the word “workout” correctly in sentences. Notice that each time it’s used, “workout” is indicating a specific chunk of time during which the person was sweating and breathing hard from exertion. Garish suggests excessive showiness or unpleasant brightness, and is used of that which tries to attract attention in a loud and tasteless way: garish neon lights; New York City’s garish Times Square; garish modern architecture that confuses ornamentation with style. Convoluted comes from the Latin convolūtus, the past participle of the verb convolvĕre, to roll together, roll round, intertwine, the source also of the unusual verb to convolve, to roll up, coil, twist, and the more familiar noun convolution, a winding, coil, twist or fold, as of something rolled upon itself: It hath many convolutions, as worms lying together have, says the earliest citation for this word, from 1545, in the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter the OED). Stratagem comes from the Greek stratēgein, to be in command, from stratēgos, a military commander, general, and is related to the more common word strategy. A stratagem, a deceptive and sometimes underhanded maneuver, is one element of a strategy, which is a more far-reaching plan to achieve a goal or attain victory. For example, the D-day invasion of Europe at Normandy was the stratagem the Allies employed in their final push to defeat Hitler. And a ruthless business strategy to outstrip the competition might involve various ethically questionable stratagems. To grovel (GRAH-vul or GRUH-vul), from Middle English and Old Norse words meaning facedown, prone, is to lie or crawl with one’s face down. Because, in days of yore, this position was assumed to show humility and obedience before a noble person or one’s superiors, grovel came to be used figuratively to mean to humble oneself out of loyalty, remorse, or fear.

Gaudy suggests showiness that is especially tasteless: gaudy costume jewelry; the bowlers’ gaudy shirts. If you like wordsearch then you'll love this compilation of over 400 puzzles that can be played on screen or printed out. There's an added twist, as you have to solve crossword style clues to discover the word you need to find. You can even create your own themed wordsearch puzzles. Synonyms of grandiose include pretentious, highflown, ostentatious (AH-sten- TAY-shus), bombastic (bahm-BAS-tik), grandiloquent (gran-DIL-uh-kwint), and turgid (TUR-jid). Everything you need to know for Year 4 English in one book. Become the first nine-year-old to write a feature-length film, land a job as an advertising exec, or give a lecture on metaphors and similes. This book covers vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling, reading comprehension, writing, and more! This is not your average English workbook. Become the next child prodigy.Ages 8-9 You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to fitness, then there's probably no need for this.Ex3a: I can’t quite work outhow I’m going to get this massive octopusthrough that tiny door, but maybe he’s squishy enough that I can fold him in half and push him through. From this sense of presume comes the adjective presumptuous, overly forward, unduly confident or bold. When you are presumptuous you go beyond what is considered appropriate or proper, or you take it upon yourself to do or say something without permission or authority. A presumptuous person takes undue liberties with others, such as bossing them around or making unwanted amorous advances. Presumptuous speech is overly bold or arrogant. Presumptuous logic is overly confident in its rightness and arrogantly ignores the flaws in its reasoning.

Did you know that kids who are frequently read to and receive direct vocabulary instruction can learn an additional 2,000-3,000 words per year? Thousands of extra words can help them communicate, write, think and express feelings and ideas more clearly and confidently. In its more common sense, presume means to suppose, believe, take for granted, infer—as when Sir Henry Morton Stanley, upon finding the explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, Tanzania, in 1871, famously asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" In this sense it is often interchangeable with assume. But sometimes a fine distinction can be drawn between these two words. Convoluted comes from the Latin convol u tus, the past participle of the verb convolv e re, to roll together, roll round, intertwine, the source also of the unusual verb to convolve, to roll up, coil, twist, and the more familiar noun convolution, a winding, coil, twist or fold, as of something rolled upon itself: "It hath many convolutions, as worms lying together have," says the earliest citation for this word, from 1545, in the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter the OED).The adjective obsequious comes from the Latin obsĕqui, to comply with, yield to, obey. The obsequious person follows the wishes or bows to the will of another, and is always ready and willing to serve, please, or obey. I see you are obsequious in your love, wrote Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Although the adjectives eclectic and diverse are close in meaning, they are not synonymous. Diverse means having variety, consisting of different kinds. You can have diverse opinions, a diverse society, or a diverse wardrobe. In careful usage, eclectic does not mean merely varied but rather selected thoughtfully, with the goal of achieving an interesting variety. Thus, although an eclectic collection of music may include many kinds of music, and in this sense be diverse, eclectic also implies that this variety was achieved by careful selection rather than by chance. One last example: Though it may be a mental workout to decide when to write the two words “work out” versus the single word, “workout,” you now have the tools necessary to work out the right answer every time. Voracious may be used either literally, of great physical hunger, or figuratively, either of a great appetite for intellectual or emotional nourishment or of an excessive eagerness or greed for something. A voracious reader is an extremely avid reader; a voracious lover is one whose appetite for erotic pleasure cannot be satisfied; a voracious look is a hungry, desirous, and perhaps predatory look.