Vocab Practice: Paucity

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Sept. 1, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Paucity means:

A) Frequently interrupted
B) Scarcity
C) A large number
D) Transient

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Cool Word Challenge: Paucity and Grotto

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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:

Paucity: Scarcity; smallness of number.

Grotto: A small cave, usually with picturesque features.

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A Paucity of Big Cats in the Wild…

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Tigers are one of many animal species that are at risk of becoming extinct.

Over a roughly 100-year period, the world has lost 97% of the tiger population, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Only 3,200 tigers are estimated to still exist in the wild today.

The paucity (see [Read more…]