Match the words in the left-hand
column with the correct definition
in the right-hand column.
1. fogram ......... A. The original or earliest version of a text
2. conflate ....... B. Bashful; modest
3. urtext .......... C. A person with old-fashioned attitudes.
4. polyhistor ... D. Fearless; bold
5. bonzer ......... E. Excellent, first-rate
6. ludic ............ F. To bring together
7. verecund .... G. A person of great or wide learning
8. clavate ....... H. Of or relating to play
9. collyrium ..... I. With one end thicker than the other
10. intrepid ..... J. A medicated salve for the eyes
1. fogram ......... A. The original or earliest version of a text
2. conflate ....... B. Bashful; modest
3. urtext .......... C. A person with old-fashioned attitudes.
4. polyhistor ... D. Fearless; bold
5. bonzer ......... E. Excellent, first-rate
6. ludic ............ F. To bring together
7. verecund .... G. A person of great or wide learning
8. clavate ....... H. Of or relating to play
9. collyrium ..... I. With one end thicker than the other
10. intrepid ..... J. A medicated salve for the eyes
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WORD-MATCH
ANSWER KEY
1. fogram C. A person with old-fashioned attitudes.
2. conflate F. To bring together
3. urtext A. The original or earliest version of a text
4. polyhistor G. A person of great or wide learning
5. bonzer E. Excellent, first-rate
6. ludic H. Of or relating to play
7. verecund B. Bashful; modest
8. clavate I. With one end thicker than the other
9. collyrium J. A medicated salve for the eyes
10. intrepid D. Fearless; bold
Dear Howdy,
ReplyDeleteWhile on a ski trip in Wyoming, I encountered a husband and
wife on the slopes who asked me if I would take a picture of
them. I said I would be happy to, and I did. Then I asked if
they wouldn't mind taking a picture of me.
"Oh, sorry," the man answered, "but we only have two pictures
left, and we wanted to take some pictures of the lodge."
Windy G.
Dear Howdy,
ReplyDeleteIt's a Wednesday night and you are at a church prayer meeting
when somebody runs in from the parking lot yelling, "Turn on a
radio, turn on a radio!"
And while the church listens to a little transistor radio with a
microphone stuck up to it, the announcement is made:
"Two women are lying in a Long Island hospital dying
from a 'mystery' flu." Within hours it seems, this thing just
sweeps across the country.
People are working around the clock trying to find an antidote.
Nothing is working! California, Oregon, Arizona, Florida,
Massachusetts.
It's as though it's just sweeping in from the borders.
And then, all of a sudden, the news comes out.
The code has been broken.
A cure can be found. A vaccine can be made.
It's going to take the blood of somebody who
hasn't been infected, and so, sure enough,all through
the Midwest, through all those channels of emergency
broadcasting,
Everyone is asked to do one simple thing: Go to your downtown
hospital and have your blood type taken. That's all we ask of you.
When you hear the sirens go off in your neighborhood, please make
your way quickly, quietly, and safely to the hospitals.
Sure enough, when you and your family get down there late on
that Friday night, there is a long line, and they've got nurses
and doctors coming out and pricking fingers and taking blood
and putting labels on it.
Your wife and your kids are out there, and they take
your blood type and they say, "Wait here in the parking lot
and if we call your name, you can be dismissed and go home."
You stand around, scared, with your neighbors, wondering
what in the world is going on and if this is the end of the world.
Suddenly a young man comes running out of the hospital screaming.
He's yelling a name and waving a clipboard. What? He yells it again!
And your son tugs on your jacket and says, "Daddy, that's me."
Before you know it, they have grabbed your boy.
Wait a minute!
Hold on! And they say, "It's okay, his blood is clean.
His blood is pure.
We want to make sure he doesn't have the disease.
We think he has got the right type." Five tense minutes later,
out come the doctors and nurses, crying and hugging one another
some are even laughing. It's the first time you have seen anybody
laugh in a week, and an old doctor walks up to you and says,
"Thank you, sir. Your son's blood type is perfect. It's clean,
it is pure, and we can make the vaccine."
As the word begins to spread all across that parking lot
full of folks, people are screaming and praying
and laughing and crying.
Then the gray-haired doctor pulls you and your wife aside and says,
"May we see you for moment? We didn't realize that the donor
would be a minor and we need ....... we need you to sign a consent
form." You begin to sign and then you see that the number of pints
of blood to be taken has been left blank.
"H-how many pints?", you ask.
And that is when the old doctor's smile fades and he says,
"We had no idea it would be little child. We weren't prepared.
I'm sorry sir, we need it all!"
"But but .. You don't understand."
"We are talking about the world here. Please sign.
We need it all!"
"But can't you give him a transfusion?"
"If we had clean blood we would. Can you sign?
Would you sign?"
In numb silence, you do.
Then they say, "Would you like to have a moment with him
before we begin?"
Can you walk back? Can you walk back to that room where
he sits on a table saying, "Daddy? Mommy? What's going on?"
Can you take his hands and say, "Son, your mommy and I love you,
and we would never ever let anything happen to you that didn't
just have to be. Do you understand that?"
And when that old doctor comes back in and says,
"I'm sorry, we've GOT to get started!
People all over the world are dying.
Can you leave?"
Can you walk out while he is saying,
"Daddy? Mommy? Daddy?"
"Why, why have you forsaken me?"
And then next week, when they have the ceremony
to honor your son some folks sleep through it ..
some folks don't even come because they go to
the lake or the seashore ..
some folks come with a pretentious smile
and just "pretend" to care.
Would you want to jump up and say,
"MY SON DIED FOR YOU! DON'T YOU CARE?"
Is that what GOD wants to say?
"MY SON DIED FOR YOU.
DON'T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I CARE?"
"FATHER, Seeing it from YOUR eyes breaks our hearts.
Maybe now we can begin to comprehend the great
Love YOU have for us."
Brenda (Tx.)
Dear Howdy,
ReplyDeleteI had general anesthesia for my surgery. It's so weird.
You go to sleep in one room and then wake up four
hours later in a totally different room. Just like in college.
Ross S.
TRIVIA:
ReplyDeleteHail destroys hundreds of millions dollars' worth of crops
and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by
tornadoes.
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In the opening procession of the Olympics, the team
representing the host nation always marches last.
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Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.
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Paris
In 1658, Paris police raided a monastery and sent twelve
monks to jail for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.
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Umpires
Before 1859, baseball umpires were comfortably seated in
padded rocking chairs behind home plate.
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Tin
Most tin is used to make containers for food and pastes.
Over 100 billion such containers are manufactured each year.
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
- - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other
ReplyDeletetwo-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the
officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a
report?
We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the
house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP
trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the
dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, the word up, takes UP almost 1/4th
the page and definitions add UP to about thirty.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is
used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may
wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is
clouding UP . When the sun comes out we say
it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things
dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............
I'll shut UP....!