ELTWeekly Issue #12, Word of the week: lexical

lexical • LEK-sih-kul

1 : of or relating to words or the vocabulary of a language as distinguished from its grammar and construction
2 : of or relating to a lexicon or to lexicography

Example: As stated in the catalog, the university’s second-year language courses were designed to emphasize lexical skills.

To know more about the word ‘lexical’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Feb.11.2009

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