11.13.2015

Periods 2 & 8 Word of the Week: zugzwang

This week, periods 3 and 8 selected zugzwang as our word of the week.  A zugzwang is a chess term meaning, "a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage."  This means that a person has a forced choice to do something disadvantageous - a situation in which there is little chance of a positive outcome.

Students created sentences using the word, but there was a sub in the classroom, so the sentences were not recorded.  If you wrote down your class' sentence, please feel free to post it in the comments below.

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