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December 17, 2024

Word of the Day: Lexical

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Word of the Day
: December 17, 2024

\LEK-sih-kul\ adjective

What It Means

To describe something as lexical is to say that it is related to words or vocabulary.

// A dictionary provides lexical information—it tells you what the word "cat" means, not all there is to know about cats.

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