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  • Verb

cooperate

koh-OP-uh-rayt

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To be a successful team, everyone has to cooperate or work together to meet a goal. Early in the season, my soccer team learned that we do better when we cooperate or help each other. Some players only thought of themselves, at least until our coach taught us to look out for other team members by passing the ball more. Now that we are cooperating or acting together, the games are more fun—and our team has been winning!

Quiz: If two people cooperate, what are they doing?

  • They each work alone on a task and compare results after both have finished.
  • They seriously think about doing something together.
  • They are working by joining their efforts.

Memory Hook
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Coop Rate All the hens are cooperating in coop number five, whose rate of laying eggs is great because they are all helping each other lay!

Examples
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  • “We make learning fun, and they think they’re playing games, and they think they’re singing and dancing,” Morris said. “But what they’re really doing is learning the alphabet and learning how to rhyme and learning how to count syllables and learning how to cooperate together in groups.” — KOSU
  • The young sweethearts Eleonore and Carelis (Ida Praetorius, Andreas Kaas, two of the most marvelous Danish dancers today) truly cooperate. They begin doing the same steps like mirror images of each other. — The New York Times

Word Ingredients
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co- with, together
oper work
-ate make something have a certain quality

When people cooperate, they “work together.”

Word Theater
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MB SEDLITA [YouTube] These dogs need to cooperate to get that tire out of the water!
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Word Constellation
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Cooperate

Word Variants
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cooperative adj of working together
cooperation n the act of working together