Word Nerd and his friend at a fair climbing a rock wall
Art by Lance Lekander
One Word, Three Ways,

One Word, Three Ways: Scale

Meet Word Nerd! He loves nothing more than finding a word he can use in different ways. This time his super-duper, triple-useful word is scale.

From the March/April Issue
Featured Skill: Vocabulary,

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Did you know that scale can mean “to climb up,” “a small piece of tough skin that covers most fish,” or “a device that measures how much something weighs”?

 Word Nerd shows you how!

Lance Lekander

I scaled the rock wall at our town fair.

Lance Lekander

Then I won a fish with orange scales at the ball toss.

YOUR TURN

Use your idiom power! Write a paragraph describing a time you felt like Ned. Include at least one of the idioms above.

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