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: (PASS-ull)
Noun:
(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
From Vocabulary.com: “The informal passel is a great way to talk about a large but vague number of things or people, like a passel of cousins at Thanksgiving or a passel of puppies at the local animal shelter. Passel is a nineteenth century invention, a US dialect version of parcel, “quantity, part, or portion.”
Example:
“The passel of luxury condos set to come online next year will certainly have an impact on prices, but continued high demand will mitigate the drop.”
