How to pass multiple arguments to the apply function

Question

I have a method called counting that takes 2 arguments. I need to call this method using the apply() method. However when I am passing the two parameters to the apply method it

Answer 1

The accepted answer is totally perfect. Taught me some interesting things about Python. But just for fun, here's more precisely what we're looking for:

selected_words =  ['awesome', 'great', 'fantastic', 'amazing', 'love', 'horrible', 'bad', 'terrible', 'awful', 'wow', 'hate']
for this_word in selected_words:
    products[this_word] = products['word_count'].apply(lambda dic: dic.get(this_word, 0))

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