One Word, 3 Ways / Root Power!

Look how this gutsy cow uses the word of the issue, strike.

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.

• 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?

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.