Noun: A person, place, or thing: Utah, minivan, moon, grocer, January. Nouns can also be ideas, such as “confidence” or “hesitation”. Pronoun: A word that takes the place of a noun. He, she, it, they. Verb: An action word. Go, jump, harangue, grill, gaze, ponder, hurry. Adjective: A word that describes, or modifies, a noun. A red hat, a slow train, a precarious ledge. Adverb: A word that modifies a verb or an adjective. He landed painfully and rose slowly. The train was ridiculously slow. Conjunction: A word that joins two independent clauses. In English, these include and, or, for, nor, but, yet, and so. Preposition: This describes the location of something. On, above, under, to, into, at, during, inside. Interjection: An exclamation, often with no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence. For example: Wow, hey, yikes, abracadabra, ouch, hmm, oh boy!
If the word has a range of meanings, you’ll need to address each one separately.
moxie - Gumption; pluck; chutzpah. moxie - Bold determination; strength or fortitude.
Most verb definitions will begin with the word “to”. For instance, a definition for the verb “pause” might read, “To stop briefly or temporarily; to interrupt a process or activity and later resume it. " Noun definitions may begin with the words “a”, “an” or “the”.
