Vocab Practice: Virtuoso

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Nov. 3, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Virtuoso means:

A) A person who is exceptionally skilled
B) A speaker who is verbose
C) A child who is timid
D) A teacher who is stern

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Cool Word Challenge: Virtuoso and Winsome

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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:

Virtuoso: A person who is exceptionally skilled in music or another artistic pursuit; marked by masterly skill.

Winsome: Cheerful, attractive and/or [Read more…]

A Virtuoso for the Ages!

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of history’s greatest musical geniuses.

Born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart learned to play several instruments and became a virtuoso (see definition and hear pronunciation below) musician as a small child.

At the age of five, he wrote his first musical compositions and, by [Read more…]