Look how this gutsy cow uses the word of the issue, strike.
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Illustration by Lance Lekander
One Word, 3 Ways / Root Power!
Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Words
From the December 2022/January 2023 Issue
Featured Skill:
Vocabulary and Grammar,
Standards
Strike can mean:
- a stopping of work to try to get an employer to agree to workers’ demands,
- to affect in a harmful way, or
- to hit or attack forcefully.
Illustration by Lance Lekander
- If I don’t get paid more for my milk, I’m going on strike.
- Farmer Moneypants will see that bad luck can strike if he doesn’t change his ways.
- I’ll use my words to convince him. I would never strike someone. Mooo!
Meet Lexie! She time traveled from the ancient world and landed in Storyworks. Lexie loves words—especially ones with Greek and Latin roots. Today, she’s using words with the Latin root aud. That means to hear or listen. Can you figure out the meaning of the orange words below?
Root Power!
Illustration by Lance Lekander
Illustration by Lance Lekander
Lexie: The auditorium is filled with people waiting for our concert!
Lexie: What if I mess up in front of the audience? I can’t play the harp very well.
Lexie: Phew! Everyone else is playing so loudly that my small mistakes aren’t audible.
This article was originally published in the December 2022/January 2023 issue.
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Text-to-Speech