LE @ ChangKATong Combined Meeting on 18 Dec 2025

 WORD OF THE DAY

revel: (verb) to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in)

revelry: (noun) boisterous festivity

USES OF WORD OF THE DAY

Kin: Thank you for the reminder to revel in tonight’s meeting.

That is an atmosphere we can revel in.

We revel in the image of flowing water.

The audience was revelling in the linguistic prowess displayed by Hyder.

I revelled in the laughter and fancy situations.

Surabhi: I’m still revelling in that.

Mukesh: I am going to revel in everyone(‘s attention)

Chetan: Revel in being a mentor yourself

Lee Min: How many of you revelled in the speech? You have 4 incredible stories we can revel in.

Arisa: Jayasti revelled in storytelling

Hyder: Revel in your superb writing, unrivalled in revelry

Malcolm: It is time to revel in the favourite segment of Toastmasters - Table Topics

You revel in receiving gifts.  ...who has revelled in your suffering

Michael: It cries out “ Revelry” . As long as it shouts: Revelry

Vasanthi: Always revel in holiday mood

BRICKBATS

GRAMMAR

1) Be like a water  =>  Be like water

2) We all faces rocks in our lives => We all face rocks in our lives

3) Don’t fight it, don’t afraid => Don't fight it, don't be afraid.

4) If you remember about the story that she tell => if you remember the story she told 

5) You are very confident of the speaker => You are very confident as a speaker

VOCABULARY

1) After that, I never look behind => Ater that, I never looked back

2) Persistent => persistence (nounc)

3) You have just finished a course => You have just completed a course.

4) It’s about her confident => It's about her confidence.

PRONUNCIATION (from DIctionary.com)

1) Guests [ Gests]

2) Celebrity [suh - leb-ri-tee]

3) Methods [meth -uhd]

4) Corps [kawr]

5) Passed away [past]

6) Expertise [ek-sper-teez]

7) Honest [on-ist]

8) Syllabus [sil-uh-buhs]

9) Protege [proh-tuh-zhey]

BOUQUETS 💐

ALLITERATION

1) A lawyer, a leader

2 ) Someone steady, stable

3) Can carve caverns

4) From confusion to confidence

5) Empowering, encouraging, endearing (also a triad)

6) It was about dedication, it was about discipline

SIMILES 

1) Be like water 

2) Mentors were like an optional software upgrade

3) English seemed to be like a compulsory torture

4) Can flow even faster like a raging river

5) His life is as colourful as his shirt

6) Your topics are as colourful as your shirts

METAPHORS

1) This speaker is a powerhouse in life

2) We need to take consistent baby steps

3) It didn’t happen overnight with a big splash

4) The journey has come full circle (idiom)

5) Two mentors came along and upgraded my operating system

6) Similes and metaphors were not my cup of tea

7) You need the calm before the storm

PERSONIFICATION

(inanimate objects take on human qualities)

1) It stopped me, it pushed me and it shoved me into being the kind of person I am today

2) Glamour shouted 

3) Love came knocking on my door

4) The universe laughed

TRIAD

1) The oomph, glamour and charm

2) The most interesting stories to live, choose and tell

3) Does it complain? Does it fear? Does it post on social media? (also personification & use of repetition)

4) I was frustrated. I was shattered, I was still jobless

5) Be a sailor, see the world and have fun

6) One story with greater length, breadth and depth

7) It cries out: Christmas! It cries out: Celebration! It cried out: Revelry! (repetition)

8) The best gift: your time, your love, your effort

RHYME 

1) Tirelessly and endlessly and to eternity

2) Double the trouble

3) Be formless, shapeless

4) Mentor vs tormentor

ANTIMETABOLE

Antimetabole is a rhetorical device where a phrase or sentence's words are repeated in reverse order in the next clause

EVERY DAY MAY NOT BE GOOD,

BUT THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN EVERY DAY!