Vocab Practice: Spurious

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Nov. 10, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Spurious means:

A) Overly spacious
B) Not authentic
C) Newly produced
D) Relatively inexpensive

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Cool Word Challenge: Spurious and Redoubtable

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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:

Spurious: Not authentic; forged; based on illogical reasoning.

Redoubtable: Formidable; worthy of respect.

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

Beware of Spurious Money!

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Most of us don’t carry around $50 bills that often.

But if you do happen to have one and try to spend it, you might notice that the cashier is likely to check to see if it is counterfeit.

Counterfeit $50 bills are rare. Less than one of these spurious [Read more…]