Words and Phrases found: May Special Meeting, May 25, 2024

 Today, I served as the Grammarian and found many nice words and phrases. Let me introduce some of them.

1. attentively
Marilyn used this word in "attentively listen to the speech." This word means "paying a lot of attention" and is similar to "carefully."

2. cookie-cutter
Momo used this phrase to describe something being used too often resulting in it losing its impact.

3. protagonist
Eri used this word that means the main character in a story when she talked about a program in her speech about the differences between Showar and Reiwa eras.

4. bring about interest
Hiko used this phrase to mention that Eri's speech title intrigued him.

5. meager and mediocre
This is not a set phrase, but was a nice twist on the Word of the Day at the meeting, "mediocre" used by Rene. Now, what's "Word of the Day"? It's the word that we encourage participants to use during that particular meeting. This has two purposes as I understand it, (1) to help members build vocabulary and (2) to help participants to train themselves to become more flexible. We are encouraged to incorporate the Word of the Day, which is not always easy. You have to be felxible to achieve that.
I like the combination of these two words, meager and mediocre, because they share similar meanings and complement each other. Also, they start with the same consonant creating a good rhythm.

We learn from other members' speeches a lot of things including how we can make an impact by using the language effectively. If you want to see it in action, pay us a visit! You can always sign up for a meeting on our website at https://senri.toastmastersclubs.org/