Pima Partnership High School
Word of the Day
The Word of the Day is a great tool for building student's vocabulary, developing critical thinking skills and raising test scores. The size of a person's working vocabulary is both a measure of educational attainment and a key to academic and career success.
Each day at Pima Partnership High School, students are exposed to a new word through daily announcements and in their classrooms. Displayed below is the current Word of the Day. Click on the word to view a picture that helps to describe that word.
August 24 – 28
Cornucopia (n) - a container that is shaped like a horn and is full of fruits and flowers
A cornucopia is generally associated with Thanksgiving.
Corporeal (adj) - having or consisting of a physical body or form
Vampires, unlike ghosts, are corporeal.
Corrugate (v) - to form or shape into wrinkles or folds or into alternating ridges and grooves
A machine was used to corrugate the metal used for the roof.
Corsair (n) – a pirate
The corsair and his crew buried their treasure on a remote island.
Cotillion (n) - a large formal party for dancing
People from all over attended the cotillion held at the community center.
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August 17 - 21
Convex (adj) - having a shape like the outside of a bowl : curving outward
A convex mirror was placed on the pole so people could see around the blind spot on the road.
Cooper (n) - a person who makes or repairs wooden barrels
In colonial times, if a person needed a new barrel or one repaired, they would go to the town's cooper.
Copious (adj) - very large in amount or number
There was a copious number of flamingoes at the lake.
Cornet (n) - a valved brass instrument resembling a trumpet
The musician bought a new cornet when she joined the marching band.
Cornice (n) - the decorative top edge of a building or column
The architects designed the new building to include a cornice.