Colorado
The mountain range that extends through Colorado
The Rocky Mountains
A hard nut to crack
Someone who is difficult to deal with/unwilling to open up.
He is running to the store
He ran to the store
Any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.
Plauge
A word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing
Onomatopoeia
Rockies (baseball) Nuggets (basketball) Broncos (football) Avalanche (hockey)
Putting the cart before the horse.
Doing things in the wrong order/in reverse.
I wish that I could eat dessert for dinner.
I wished that I could have eaten dessert for dinner.
A large body of troops ready for battle, especially an infantry unit forming part of a brigade.
Battalion
Words with the same sounds but with different meanings
Homophone
The mining of this material caused settlers to move into Colorado in the 1850s
Gold (Pikes Peak Gold Rush)
Once in a blue moon.
Something that happens very rarely/infrequently.
I live in Valenciennes, and walk to school everyday.
I lived in Valenciennes, and walked to school everyday.
A name for a police officer or the governor of a royal castle.
Constable
Words with the same spellings but with different meanings
Homograph
An important event for the Colorado that happened in 1876
Becoming an official state!
Hit the hay
Go to sleep
The bell rings, telling us class is over.
The bell rang, telling us class was over.
Greatly revered and honored.
Hallowed
Words with the same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings
Homonym
The city in Colorado Ruth comes from.
Denver
When pigs fly
Something that will never happen, an impossibility.
She is bringing cake to the party
She brought cake to the party
A world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject.
Paradigm.
A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
Eponym.