Look how these playful penguins use our word of the issue, channel. It can mean “a TV or radio station,” “to direct your thoughts or feelings toward something,” or “a narrow stretch of water between two areas of land.”
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One Word, 3 Ways / Word Nerd
In each issue, our Vocab Lab celebrates the weird, wild, and wonderful world of words.
From the December 2019 / January 2020 Issue
Matthias Clamer/Getty Images (Penguins); 3DMI/Shutterstock.com (TV)
- This channel is playing my favorite TV show!
- I need to channel all my energy into staying awake during this boring talk show.
- After this show is finally finished, can we go for a swim in the channel?
Tyler Maxwell used to be a typical boy. But one day, a 10-pound dictionary fell on his head.
Luckily, he survived. But now Tyler can use only the biggest, hardest words there are. His friends don’t understand him. Can you help?
Directions: Use a dictionary to help you figure out what Tyler is trying to say. Write your answer on a separate piece of paper.
Lance Lekander
"My avian companion ingested my arithmetic textbook."
This article was originally published in the December 2019/January 2020 issue.
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