This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (PURR-go-la)
Noun:
a framework that supports climbing plants
From Vocabulary.com: “Other words for pergola are trellis or arbor. The word pergola is Italian, from the Latin pergula, “projecting roof,” which is most likely rooted in pergere, “to come forward.”
Example:
“The appeal of the backyard was greatly enhanced by a well-established pergola, teeming with jasmine.”
