Cool Words for Cool Kids
This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on April 24, 2014.
Let’s do a practice round!
Malinger means:
A) To be committed to military service
B) To question the value of something
C) To feign illness to avoid work
D) To denigrate the character of another person
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:
Bumptious: Self-assertive, proud or confident to an irritating degree.
Malinger: To exaggerate or feign illness in order to avoid duty or [Read more…]
When the World War I broke out in 1914, the psychological effects of war were still deeply misunderstood.
Soldiers who suffered from trauma were often wrongly dismissed as malingerers (see definition and hear pronunciation below) who lacked courage and patriotism.
However, some conditions that affected soldiers were starting to be [Read more…]
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