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raindrop

[ reyn-drop ]

/ ˈreɪnˌdrɒp /

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noun

a drop of rain.

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In our third teacher-created PSAT practice test there are new and unique vocabulary terms you may have never heard of! Can you guess what they mean?

Question 1 of 10

seclusion

a false belief or opinion.

the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.

the state of being isolated, kept apart, or withdrawn into solitude.

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Origin of raindrop

before 1000; Middle English rein-drop(e); Old English regndropa;see rain, drop

Words nearby raindrop

rain check, rain cloud, raincoat, rain dance, rain date, raindrop, Rainey, rainfall, rainforest, rain frog, rain gauge

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Example sentences from the Web for raindrop

The raindrop which falls from the cloud cannot tell upon what plant it drops: there is a quickening power in it, but for what?
Christian Gellert's Last Christmas|Berthold Auerbach
With the raindrop the clue she had been seeking had come to her.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911|Various
Raindrop impressions and sun cracks show that the mud from time to time was exposed to rains and the drying action of the air.
Glacier National Park [Montana]|United States Dept. of the Interior
A raindrop seems a common thing, but cast in dramatic form it becomes of rare charm.
The Reconstructed School|Francis B. Pearson

If we derive his name from the same root as ‘ind-u,’ raindrop, then ‘his starting-point was the rain’ (i. 131).
Modern Mythology|Andrew Lang

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