piro

[ pir-oh ]

/ ˈpɪr oʊ /

noun Informal.

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

Origin of piro

by shortening

Words nearby piro

piriform, piriform muscle, pirithoüs, pirke avoth, pirn, piro, pirog, pirogen, pirogue, piroplasm, piroplasma

Example sentences from the Web for piro

If this be true, the Taos are made to speak the Piro language and the Hemez as well.
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man|Robert Gordon Latham
Her father, angered, joins the accusers, and requests the king that he order Piro to cure his daughter.
Filipino Popular Tales|Dean S. Fansler
The Count Piro would not dream of asking anything but the hand of the princess.'
The Crimson Fairy Book|Various
The people who built and inhabited these cities of the Accursed Lakes were of the now extinct Piro stock.
The Book of the National Parks|Robert Sterling Yard

Ponto straight as a rod—Piro in a slight curve—and Basta a perfect semicircle.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)|John Wilson