Vocab Practice: Sylvan

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Feb. 5, 2015.

Let’s do a practice round!

Sylvan means:

A) Characterized by a slippery slope
B) Marked by a colorful plateau
C) Relating to the woods
D) Using a synthetic material

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Cool Word Challenge: Verbose and Sylvan

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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:

Verbose: Wordy; using more words than necessary.

Sylvan: Relating to a wooded area or forest.

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

What a Sylvan Setting!

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When is the last time you visited a forest?

Plenty of places have lots of trees. But you can’t really call it a forest unless the treetops cover at least 60% of that area, according to some forest ecologists.

Each year, millions of Americans visit National Forests in the US. [Read more…]