Word Knowledge

Yesterday I presented a vocabulary word.  The word I presented was the word “accost”. Do you know what accost means?  As an ASVAB tutor, I take a unique approach to present ASVAB vocabulary words to my students.  My cat, Mr. Cuddles, presents the word in video form.  As an ASVAB tutor, I take a unique approach to present ASVAB vocabulary words to my students.  He uses a sentence that presents the word with context clues.  In the video he says, “We’re on the search for a suspect who decided to accost a woman.  He came up to her, approached her in an alleyway, and spoke to her in an aggressive way and frightened her.”  Accost means to approach and address boldly or aggressively. Did you know what “accost