Practice: time

Test your knowledge of stronger alternatives for "time".

Practice is designed to help you get familiar with the replacement words. Some sentences may have small grammar errors, and sometimes more than one answer could work—focus on choosing the best replacement word.
Question 1 of 10Score: 0
Boring sentence
In that time period, most news traveled by letter, not by notifications on a phone, so people waited days for answers.

In that ____, most news traveled by letter, not by notifications on a phone, so people waited days for answers.