piedra

[ pē-ā′drə ]

n.

A fungal disease of the hair marked by small black or white nodular masses.

QUIZZES

CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Words nearby piedra

pied-à-terre, piedfort, piedmont, piedmontese, piedmontite, piedra, piedras negras, piefort, pieman, piemonte, pienaar

Example sentences from the Web for piedra

Palabra de boca, piedra de honda—A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood
They then demanded the money and were told that they must bring him a certain stone (piedra de espiritu).
Records of The Spanish Inquisition|Andrew Dickson White
The pass of the Piedra Parada is 16,008 feet above the sea, and is always covered with snow.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
Specimens from three miles south and 16 miles west of Piedra were found in a crevice inside a cave.
The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico|Ticul Alvarez

Piedra succeeds Viedma, attacks the Pampa Tribes, and is defeated.
Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata|Woodbine Parish