Secret Bases
This is the base of a rectangle with a height of 5cm and an area of 50cm2.
10 cm
Area = base x height,
so 50 / 5 = 10
This base means to throw or send.
ject
This ject-word means to not accept something
reject
Just when you thought the water was safe!
These (deadly?) fish are starting to move north into Canada waters.
Great White Sharks
Just 10 more days until Alberta votes on this big issue.
Whether it will secede from Canada.
This is the base of a rectangle with a height of 4 cm and an area of 20 cm2
5 cm
20 / 4 = 5
This base means to tell or say
dict
This dict-word means to talk against or be against something
contradict
Billions are at stake!
This First Nation's reserve, the largest and most populous in Canada, is suing the government, saying it illegally sold off its land and mismanaged its trust funds.
The Six Nations (of the Grand River)
The world was shocked this week when US prisoner Christa Pike survived TWO of these.
Executions!
Neither injection was fatal, exposing deep, deep issues with capital punishment in the US
This is the base of a parallelogram with a height of 6 cm and an area of 36 cm2.
36 / 6 = 6
This base means to look or watch
spect
This spect-word means to examine something closely, like a car, to make sure it works properly.
inspect
Rescuers say a teen stranded on Crown Mountain (the "Widowmaker") in BC got lost after he used this to plan his route.
AI
(The boy denies this)
The US-led "Super-Intelligence Force" is meant to address this growing issue.
AI
This is the base of a parallelogram with a height of 9 cm and an area of 72 cm2.
8 cm
72 / 9 = 8
This base means "water"
aqua
This is a ruler whose word is law. What they say, goes!
Dictator
The Conservative Party in BC had to drop one of its candidates after this was found on their social media.
Offensive posts (racism, encouraging violence)
Not again!
An outbreak of this disease, once the scourge of 13th century Europe, in Russia has caused many to worry.
The plague
Technically, its the pneumonic plague instead of the bubonic plague, but it's the same bacteria so whatever.
This is the base of a triangle with a height of 4 cm and an area of 16 cm2.
8 cm
16 / 4 x 2
=16 / 2 = 8
This is the base of the word "benediction"
dict
If you've made this correctly, you've told the future.
A prediction
Canadian Anne Carson just won the Nobel Prize. She won it in this field.
Literature
Released this week, this movie sequel covers Facebook and its exploitative practices.
The Social Reckoning