This week’s theme
Words from music

This week’s words
fiddlestick
upbeat
orchestrate
concert pitch
trombenik

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(UHP-beet)

MEANING:

noun: An unaccented beat before the first beat of a measure.
adjective: Cheerful; optimistic.

ETYMOLOGY:

From up + Old English beatan (beat). Earliest documented use: 1869.

USAGE:

“As John Spangenberg of Damascus was readying his blooms for the show, he remained upbeat despite it all. ‘I probably lost a quarter of my garden in the spring,’ he said.”
Adrian Higgins; The Photogenic Dahlia Stages a Comeback, and Steals the Show; The Washington Post; Oct 11, 2018.

See more usage examples of upbeat in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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