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
Vocab Practice: Spurious
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Cool Word Challenge: Spurious and Redoubtable
November 14, 2014 by
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.
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Beware of Spurious Money!
November 10, 2014 by
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 (see definition and hear pronunciation below) bills shows up for every 25,000 genuine ones.
However, if you find yourself with a counterfeit bill, it will have no value.
What’s more, a counterfeit bill cannot be exchanged for a real one, and it is actually against the law to try to spend it!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can you think of any other valuable items that could be spurious?
Spurious: Not authentic; forged; based on illogical reasoning.
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