Word of the Week #1: Ramshackle

Justin Riray
MassCom 100W - MW 1:30pm
Word #1
Word Count: 107

My Word: ramshackle

Source: “Nearly Witches” by Panic at the Disco

How it was used:
Here I am,
Composing of burlesque,
Out of where they rest their heads,
Sulking in their splintered cradles,
And ramshackle hands

All definitions and part of speech: adj; loosely made or held together, rickety, shaky, so poorly constructed that disintegration is likely, falling to pieces, out of repair.

My Sentence: Before I went off to college I spent one more night in the ramshackle tree house my father built when I was but three feet tall; I was not sure if I’d make it to dawn without breaking the disintegrating wooden floor.