Bungee-jump Sentence Examples

If you’ve ever duct-taped a side mirror back onto a car or draped a blanket over some chairs for a makeshift tent, you’ve likely boasted about your jerry-rigging skills. But your talent for on-the-spot construction may have surpassed your vocabulary prowess, as the term is actually jury-rigged, not jerry-rigged. (Unless your name is Jerry and you’ve rigged it up; in which case, carry on.) Learn how you’ve gotten it wrong all these years — and whether or not jerry-rigged is a World War I-era insult.

If you really sit and think about it, how many words with double letters can you think of from your memory alone? Double-letter words are words that contain at least one set of letters used twice consecutively to make a certain sound, usually used in the emphasized syllable in the word containing them.