Vocab Practice: Impervious

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Oct. 23, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Impervious means:

A) Illogical
B) Slippery
C) Pliable
D) Impenetrable

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Cool Word Challenge: Antipathy and Impervious

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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:

Antipathy: Strong feeling of aversion; dislike.

Impervious: Not allowing something (such as water or light) to enter or pass through; impenetrable. [Read more…]

It’s Impervious to the Elements!

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For centuries, humans have invented ways to keep the rain off their backs during a downpour.

As early as the 13th century, rubber-tree extracts were used to make clothing impervious (see definition and hear pronunciation below) to the elements.

But the first known raincoat was not created until the late [Read more…]