verisimilitude

Vocab Practice: Verisimilitude

October 21, 2014 by Cool Word Club

This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Sept. Oct. 13, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Verisimilitude means:

A) The appearance of being real
B) Limited in scale
C) Marked by symmetrical composition
D) Difficult to interpret

October 17, 2014 by Cool Word Club

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:

Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real.

Coagulate: To become viscous or thickened into a soft, semisolid or solid mass. [Read more…]

October 13, 2014 by Cool Word Club

John James Audubon, the famous 19th-century wildlife artist, began drawing birds as a hobby.

While living in Kentucky, Audubon’s day job running a dry-goods store eventually failed, and he turned to his art full time.

Striking out into the wilderness of early America, he sought to depict and record the [Read more…]

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