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perplex (verb)

\per-PLEKS\

What does it mean?

1 : to block the understanding of; especially : confuse, bewilder2 : to make difficult to understand : complicate

How do you use it?

"They keep coming up new all the time--things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up." (Lucy Maud Montgomery, _Anne of Green Gables_)

Are you a word wiz?

"Perplex" comes ultimately from the Latin verb "plectere." Judging from what you know about the word "perplex," what do you think "plectere" means?

A. to braid

B. to spatter

C. to climb

D. to gossip

meteoric (adjective)

\mee-tee-OR-ik\

What does it mean?

: of or relating to a meteor

How do you use it?

In science class, we learned about meteors and looked at pictures Ms. Becker had taken of a meteoric crater in the Arizona desert.

Are you a word wiz?

"Meteoric" has another meaning besides the one above. It is applied to things that remind people of meteors because of a particular quality, and begins "resembling a meteor in . . ." Which of the answers below correctly completes the definition?

A. unpredictability of movement

B. hardness or in roughness of texture

C. in rarity or in greatness of value

D. speed or in sudden and temporary brilliance

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Words, words, words

 

http://wordcentral.com/buzzword/buzzword.php

 

perplex (verb)

\per-PLEKS\

What does it mean?

1 : to block the understanding of; especially : confuse, bewilder2 : to make difficult to understand : complicate

How do you use it?

"They keep coming up new all the time--things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up." (Lucy Maud Montgomery, _Anne of Green Gables_)

Are you a word wiz?

"Perplex" comes ultimately from the Latin verb "plectere." Judging from what you know about the word "perplex," what do you think "plectere" means?

A. to braid

B. to spatter

C. to climb

D. to gossip

meteoric (adjective)

\mee-tee-OR-ik\

What does it mean?

: of or relating to a meteor

How do you use it?

In science class, we learned about meteors and looked at pictures Ms. Becker had taken of a meteoric crater in the Arizona desert.

Are you a word wiz?

"Meteoric" has another meaning besides the one above. It is applied to things that remind people of meteors because of a particular quality, and begins "resembling a meteor in . . ." Which of the answers below correctly completes the definition?

A. unpredictability of movement

B. hardness or in roughness of texture

C. in rarity or in greatness of value

D. speed or in sudden and temporary brilliance

 

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