Vocab Practice: Burnish

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Aug. 27, 2015.

Let’s do a practice round!

Burnish means:

A) To create a rounded shape
B) To make shiny by rubbing
C) To darken the color
D) To make less fragile

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Cool Word Challenge: Sacrosanct and Burnish

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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:

Sacrosanct: Sacred; inviolable.

Burnish: To make shiny by rubbing; polish.

Submit your sentence below. The most creative ones that we receive [Read more…]

The Beauty of a Burnished Treasure

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The practice of making pottery first originated within ancient civilizations as a means of storing and transporting food.

Made from clay, a natural product containing decomposed rock, pottery is created by using one’s hands to mold and shape the material. It is then dried and heated at high temperatures so [Read more…]