How to spell mid-term

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What it means: Happening in the middle of a school session.

In a sentence: We had a fun party at school after the mid-term exams.

Same family: midterm, final, semester, term, mid-year. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Mid-term is a compound of “mid,” meaning middle, and “term,” which comes from Latin *terminus*, meaning an end or boundary. In schools, it literally refers to an exam or point in the middle of a term or semester.

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