Vocab Practice: Hapless

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Dec. 4, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Hapless means:

A) Unfortunate
B) Unrepentant
C) Unrefined
D) Unwieldy

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Cool Word Challenge: Efficacious and Hapless

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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:

Efficacious: Able to produce a desired effect; effective.

Hapless: Unfortunate; unlucky.

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

So Long to a Hapless Situation!

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The “unemployment rate” gets mentioned on the news a lot these days. The term refers to the percentage of people who are not working but are eligible to do so.

Unfortunately, as a result of the 2008 recession, the US unemployment rate has been very high.

Not only did many [Read more…]