bellwether

Vocab Practice: Bellwether

June 23, 2015 by Cool Word Club

This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on June 15, 2015.

Let’s do a practice round!

Bellwether means:

A) A type of auditory signal
B) A well-protected fortress
C) An indicator of a future trend
D) An open-ended question

June 19, 2015 by Cool Word Club

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:

Bellwether: An indicator of a future trend; a leader at the forefront of a trend.

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June 15, 2015 by Cool Word Club

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