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04 May 2025 14:47

4️⃣

✅ HARD: Capital on Santiago Island.
✅ MEDIUM: Capital off the coast of Africa.
✅ EASY: Capital of Cape Verde.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Catchy song, conversationally.
✅ EASY & MEDIUM: A rhyme of cop (hint: catchy song).

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04 May 2025 14:12

✍️ Word of the Day — mendicant 📎

Etymology
From the Latin mendicare, meaning to beg or ask for charity. The word shares a root with the Latin mendicus, meaning beggar.

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04 May 2025 13:46

9️⃣ NOUN: quality of goodwill or charitableness —

DEMO — VOL — ENCE
❌ ❌
BENE — TOX — OLOGY

✅ Answer: n benevolence .
BENE (good) + VOL (wish or will) + ENCE (action or quality of) = BENEVOLENCE — quality of goodwill or charitableness.

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04 May 2025 13:45

7️⃣ NOUN: imagined place that is extremely bad —

DYS — DICT — IA
❌ ❌
PRE — TOP — IC

✅ Answer: n dystopia .
DYS (not normal) + TOP (place) + IA (territory or world) = DYSTOPIA — imagined place that is extremely bad.

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04 May 2025 13:45

5️⃣ ADJECTIVE: using more words than needed —

VERB — ATE
❌
TEMPOR — OSE

✅ Answer: adj verbose
VERB (word) + OSE (full of or having) = VERBOSE — using more words than needed.

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04 May 2025 13:25

🆒 Word Parts (reading) 🆙

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the correct word part matching the definition. Later, choose one word part from each column to build the defined word.

Benefits➕:
📖 Develop a more varied and complex vocabulary ;
💠 Learn the most important word parts in English ;
🔐 Decode the meaning of unfamiliar words .

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03 May 2025 11:38

turbid ❓

✅ 🐾 turbid (muddy) — muddy or opaque 🐾

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03 May 2025 11:37

gargantuan ❓

✅ 🌎 gargantuan (huge) — extremely big 🌎

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03 May 2025 09:49

aperture ❓

✅ 🕳 aperture (opening) — small opening, especially in a camera 🕳

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCAN THE ARTICLE 🔎
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❓ What does "hippopotamus" mean in Ancient Greek?

✅ Answer: First paragraph: While the name "hippopotamus" in ancient Greek means "river horse," ... .

TIP: Scan in a spiral pattern, not top to bottom or left to right.

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCANNING

HIPPOS

AFRICA'S GIANT WATER DWELLERS

Native only to Africa, the hippopotamus comes in two very distinct species: the massive common hippo and its smaller, endangered cousin, the pygmy hippo. While the name "hippopotamus" in ancient Greek means "river horse," their closest mammalian relatives are actually whales and dolphins.

To protect their thin-skinned hides from dehydration, common hippos cool off in rivers and lakes for up to 16 hours a day and can stay fully submerged for fives minutes without breathing. At dusk, they go on land to graze on short grasses and reeds, consuming about 80 pounds of food in one evening. In the event of a shortage, a hippo can store two days' worth of food in its stomach and go up to three weeks without eating.

Unlike pygmy hippos, which only weigh a few hundred pounds, common hippos are one of the largest land mammals, with males weighing upwards of four tons. Only elephants and white rhinos are known to exceed them in size. And while common hippos are generally seen as non-violent because they lack predators, they do engage in territorial standoffs with one another and can inflict mortal injuries with their huge tusks.

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25 March 2025 14:29

SKIMMING

HIPPOS

AFRICA'S GIANT WATER DWELLERS

Native only to Africa, the hippopotamus comes in two very distinct species: the massive common hippo and its smaller, endangered cousin, the pygmy hippo. While the name "hippopotamus" in ancient Greek means "river horse," their closest mammalian relatives are actually whales and dolphins.

To protect their thin-skinned hides from dehydration, common hippos cool off in rivers and lakes for up to 16 hours a day and can stay fully submerged for fives minutes without breathing. At dusk, they go on land to graze on short grasses and reeds, consuming about 80 pounds of food in one evening. In the event of a shortage, a hippo can store two days' worth of food in its stomach and go up to three weeks without eating.

Unlike pygmy hippos, which only weigh a few hundred pounds, common hippos are one of the largest land mammals, with males weighing upwards of four tons. Only elephants and white rhinos are known to exceed them in size. And while common hippos are generally seen as non-violent because they lack predators, they do engage in territorial standoffs with one another and can inflict mortal injuries with their huge tusks.

Image credit: PB_images/Thinkstock

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09 March 2025 19:07

🆒 Context (reading) 🆙

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the word that best fits the sentence.

Benefits➕:
📖 Master new words and expand your vocabulary ;
🔍 Use context cues to identify the meaning of new words ;
💬 Become more articulate in your speech and writing .

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19 February 2025 15:30

✍️ Word of the Day — adage 📎

Etymology
From the Latin adagium, meaning a saying or proverb. Such sayings were often used to convey traditional wisdom.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Livestock lodgings.
✅ MEDIUM: Farm shelters.
✅ EASY: Big red farm buildings.

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04 May 2025 14:47

✅ Train your brain: Enjoy a quick mini puzzle packed with learning opportunities!
🧠 Keep your brain active: Expand your vocabulary and discover trivia about language, science, and geography.
🔍 Backed by research: Solving crossword puzzles can improve your cognition, problem-solving, and memory skills.

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Solve the crossword.

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04 May 2025 13:46

1️⃣0️⃣ ADVERB: in the manner of one side acting alone —

UNI — LATER — AL — EE
❌ ❌ ❌
PAN — NUL — ABLE — LY

✅ Answer: n unilaterally .
UNI (one or singly) + LATER (side or wide) + AL (relating to) + LY (in the manner of) = UNILATERALLY — in the manner of one side acting alone.

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04 May 2025 13:46

8️⃣ NOUN: act of being disloyal —

SUB — FID — ANT
❌ ❌
PER — VEST — Y

✅ Answer: n perfidy .
PER (to ill effect) + FID (trust or faith) + Y (characterized by) = PERFIDY — act of being disloyal.

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04 May 2025 13:45

6️⃣ VERB: to state as the truth —

DERM — VER
❌
A — IC

✅ Answer: v aver
A (to or toward) + VER (truth) = AVER — to state as the truth.

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04 May 2025 13:45

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

4️⃣ NOUN: person who speaks many languages —

DUR — GLOT
❌
POLY — CENT

✅ Answer: n polyglot
POLY (many) + GLOT (language) = POLYGLOT — person who speaks many languages.

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03 May 2025 14:51

✍️ Word of the Day — perfunctory 📎

Etymology
From the Latin perfungi, meaning to carry out an action. The ending -ory can be used for adjectives.

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03 May 2025 11:38

kudos ❓

✅ 👏 kudos (acclaim) — recognition for an achievement 👏

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03 May 2025 11:36

barricade ❓

✅ ⛔️ barricade (barrier) — obstacle constructed to block passage ⛔️

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03 May 2025 09:47

👁‍🗨 Visualization (reading) 👁‍🗨

Benefits➕:
📖 Master new words and expand your vocabulary ;
🌄 Create visual memory cues to remember words .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the picture that best represents the word.

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCAN THE ARTICLE 🔎
2️⃣ OF 3️⃣

❓ How long can the common hippo go without eating?

✅ Answer: Second paragraph: ... , a hippo can store two days' worth of food in its stomach and go up to three weeks without eating.

TIP: Scan in a spiral pattern, not top to bottom or left to right.

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25 March 2025 14:30

SCAN THE ARTICLE 🔎
1️⃣ OF 3️⃣

❓ How do common hippos prevent dehydration?

✅ Answer: Second paragraph: ... To protect their thin-skinned hides from dehydration, common hippos cool off in rivers and lakes for up to 16 hours a day ... .

TIP: Scan in a spiral pattern, not top to bottom or left to right.

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25 March 2025 14:29

🔎 Extraction (reading) 🔎

Benefits➕:
⌛️ Learn time-saving techniques for skimming long pieces of writing ;
🔍 Find critical information quickly using scanning techniques .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Skim the article within the allotted time. Choose the correct answer in the skimming review. ➡️ Next, find and choose the passage in the article that answers the question.

‼️ BEFORE WE BEGIN. This game is split into two portions: skimming and scanning. Improving these skills allows you to evaluate and consume information more effectively in real-world situations.

SKIMMING. Quickly look across the text and identify important words or ideas. It's fine to skip lines if they don't seem important.

SCANNING. Keep the information you're looking for in the front of your mind and move rapidly through the text to identify where it's likely to occur.

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25 February 2025 13:39

➕ Connotation (reading)➖

Benefits➕:
📖 Better understand meaning and tone while reading ;
👥 Avoid misunderstandings in written communication ;
📓 Master new words by classifying them as positive or negative .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Determine the connotation of the word by choosing NEGATIVE (➖) or POSITIVE (➕).

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19 February 2025 13:08

📌 This passage explores the benefits of cultivating wild places in urban spaces.

📄 In 1862 Henry David Thoreau said, 'In Wildness is the preservation of the world'. More than a century later, urban dwellers know all too well to urge to escape their noisy, cemented habitat and sit in nature, even if for a few minutes. The intentional cultivation of miniature wildernesses such as quiet gardens, bird sanctuaries, and open spaces elevates mood, cognitive function, and general well-being. It might also save urbanites from themselves. 📃