Words February 2024 Week 4

Gen Z and millennials think that ending a sentence with a period is hostile. (Putting a period between every word gives emphasis: “Just. Look. How. Emphatic. This. Is.”)

Sefa-Utaki is the most sacred site on the island of Okinawa. (Legend has it that this site was the origin of the Ryukyu Kingdom.)

The dentist removed my wisdom teeth. (Ouch!)

Mr. Beast is a philanthropist. (He spends much of his money to help people.)

Most of the tallest mountains are located in the Himalayas. (Mt Danali in Alaska is the highest mountain in the US at 6,190 m. Mt Rainer in Washington State is 4,394 meters high and Mt Fuji is 3,776 meters.)

We went to the theater an hour early. (Even getting there an hour early, the three of them couldn’t get seats together.)

He is a man of few words. (He is a quiet person.)

He listened to music on a cassette tape while driving to work. (Do not say “during driving.”)

All buses were running late because of the snow. (There was basically no schedule.)

It is said that kombucha was given to Emperor Inkyo in the year 414 as a medicine. (Even plain green tea was considered to be medicinal.)

She was sore from shoveling snow. (She had pain all over her body.)

We ordered too many dishes. (They were stuffed after eating everything.)

There are many choices on the menu. (Do not say, “there were many menus.”)

I was dog-tired. (She was very tired after babysitting and house cleaning.)

The parking lot was full. (The inside parking area had some open spaces.)

Seiji Ozawa died from cancer of the esophagus. (He was 88.)

His house was Japanese architecture. (It was an old Japanese style house.)

The house was disassembled and then rebuilt in Hamura. (They took apart the house in Tachikawa and put it back together in Hamura.)

My head was itchy from my pollen allergy. (Medicine helps to get rid of the symptoms.)

Let bygones be bygones. (This phrase is used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past.)

A 14-story building is being built near Ome Station. (The building will be to your right as you leave the station.)

The funeral was attended by family and close friends. (This is becoming common since COVID.)

I defrosted the fish. (She thawed the fish.)

It wasn’t a potluck party, but everybody brought a dish. (Her aunt cooked most of the food but the others bright side dishes and desserts.)

We get together once in a blue moon. (We seldom get together.)

She teased her hair. (The hair is combed from the ends to the roots to give the hair more bulk, like with a “beehive” hairdo.)