Vocab Practice: Apogee

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on May 29, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Apogee means:

A) After-thought
B) Culmination
C) Sad ending
D) New beginning

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Cool Word Challenge: Valorous and Apogee

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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:

Valorous: Valiant; brave; showing courage.

Apogee: The highest point of something; culmination; the point in outer space that is farthest from [Read more…]

The Apogee of Awards!

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For professionals in such fields as physics, medicine and literature, there is no higher honor than the Nobel Prize.

It marks the apogee (see definition and hear pronunciation below) of a distinguished and fruitful career.

The award was first laid out in the will of Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred [Read more…]