Vocab Practice: Ancillary

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on June 26, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Ancillary means:

A) Superior
B) Secretive
C) Subordinate
D) Superstitious

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Cool Word Challenge: Friable and Ancillary

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Cool Word Challenge: Just for fun, come up with one sentence that uses both of the cool vocabulary words that you learned this week.

Here are the words again:

Friable: Easily crumbled; brittle.

Ancillary: Providing something additional to a main part or function; subordinate; auxiliary.

Submit your sentence below. The [Read more…]

Sherlock Holmes’ Ancillary Character…

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are perhaps the most famous team to partner in solving crimes.

Created by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes and Watson first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, published on Halloween in 1892.

Holmes, the finely tuned reasoning machine, took a starring [Read more…]