my favorite word

 My favorite word is "cleek." Sometime last year it was dictionary.com's word of the day, and upon learning about it I thought it was such a funny word. Cleek as a verb means to grasp or seize something suddenly and eagerly. I told a few friends about cleek in band the next day, and ever since then we've made it a thing to sneak up on each other and cleek their arm or shoulder, while shouting cleek of course.

Today in class we learned new vocabulary words. I like today's list of words a lot. I was also pleasantly surprised to recognize one of the words, lachrymose, but not because I knew the word already. I was able to identify what lachrymose meant because during my freshman year I took Latin as my language class, and I was able to remember the Latin word which meant "to cry", lacrimat.