Vocab Practice: Missive

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Feb. 16, 2015.

Let’s do a practice round!

Missive means:

A) A gentle handshake
B) An overseas location
C) A written message
D) A military installment

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Cool Word Challenge: Missive and Commingle

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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:

Missive: A letter or other written message.

Commingle: To mix, blend or combine.

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

A Missive From Yesteryear…

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Long before the days of iPhones and Skype, telegrams were used to carry messages across great distances in a relatively short amount of time.

These brief missives (see definition and hear pronunciation below) ushered in the modern era of rapid communication.

Telegrams were used to send both personal messages and [Read more…]