Vocab Practice: Attrition

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Nov. 17, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Attrition means:

A) A false application
B) A branch of the military
C) A reduction in number
D) An insatiable thirst

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Cool Word Challenge: Attrition and Malediction

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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:

Attrition: Weakening an enemy through constant attack; a reduction in number or size.

Malediction: The utterance of a curse or execration. [Read more…]

A Tragic War of Attrition…

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One hundred years ago, in the hot summer of 1914, Europe’s great powers lumbered ominously into war against each other. The US joined World War I in 1917.

When the conflict ended in 1918, millions of soldiers and civilians had died, and many more suffered physical and psychological wounds.

World [Read more…]