Spooky!
The ghost can wait! Before getting to your big scare, you need a few of these to build suspense and mystery.
Odd signs, weird happenings
This base means to build or to make
struct
This -est word means "the most cold"
coldest
Tariffs, shmarrifs!
When the US placed tariffs on Canada, this province refused to put any on the US. Their premier now says the US midterms are a vindication of that refusal.
Alberta.
Way to rock the vote!
These big elections just happened in the US on Tuesday.
Midterm elections for Congress/Legislative Branch.
In literature, this is what you call the place the story (or part of it) take place in. In a ghost story, it should feel old, run-down, and dangerous.
The setting
This base means to hang or weigh
pend/pense
This struct-word means "to build into."
It's what teachers do.
Instruct
Canada's new federal budget sets aside $5 billion for "culture." Pretty neat!
300 pts for each correct example of what culture spending by the government looks like.
2. Museums
3. Radio & Journalism
4. Community Centers
5. Historic sites & the Heritage Minutes
6. Veteran Affairs
7. Libraries & Archives
8. Artists and art centers
9. Marine and parks conservation
After the elections, this party is set to control both houses of Congress.
The Democratic Party
Ghost are deliberate, not random!
In literature, this is what you call the reason a character does something.
Motivation, drive, goal
These base family means to move (give all three)
mob/mot/mov
Very sus!
This pense word means "full of tension, weight," meaning that a scene or story has you on the edge of your seat!
Suspenseful
Know a school that uses Google Classroom? They will soon be able to turn AI off of their main tools, like Google Docs, but AI will remain on this core tool.
Search engines ("Google")
This billionaire (trillionaire??) spent half a billion dollars on midterm election ads. Barely any of them won.
Elon Musk
Hey, spelling errors can be spooky, too! This is the one error in the following sentence:
Jim-Bob want to the store to buy toilet paper, but the store was sold out.
This suffix means "the most..."
-est
This mob-word means to move people and resources into action.
mobilize
The new federal budget sets aside around $30 billion to get rid of this social problem currently affecting 65,000 Canadians. PM Mark Carney says his plan will end that problem in just 10 years.
Homelessness
The NASDAQ--a stock market exchange--fell dramatically yesterday due in part to fears the US will soon regulate (put rules on) this industry.
AI
Double Trouble!
Double the points if you can give both errors in the following sentence:
Dave brushed the dirt out of his eyes, just in time too see five demonic chickens rush towards him
2. Needs a period at the end
This is the base of the word "suffer"
fer
You're moving up!
Getting one of these at work means higher pay and more responsibilities.
A promotion
This area of Canada refused to go along with Daylight Savings Time this year. As a result, they now observe the same time zone as Florida.
The West. Parts of BC.
This world religion leader just recovered from lung cancer and will even be traveling to Latin American this week.
The Pope