Words January 2024 Week 2

We left home at 5 a.m. (Don’t say, “we started at 5 a.m.)

His alma mater won the Ekiden race. (Your alma mater is the college or high school that you graduated from.)

Sarcandra glabra is an herb native to Southeast Asia. (Its common names include the nine-knotted flower and the bone-knitted lotus.)

The Japanese “senryo”, or “thousand-coin tree” is called the Ardisia tree in English. (Chinese used this plant as a medicine.)

The house was shaking. (This was from the January 1 earthquake.)

I can see the moon and stars while working the late shift. (He could relax while working.)

The earth is spinning faster. (The atomic clock is adjusted one second about every 20 months.)

I had no appetite. (He caught cold and didn’t feel like eating.)

I use all-purpose flour for everything. (There are at least 21 types of flour.)

It was just another day. (It wasn’t a special day for me.)

Corn is both a vegetable and a grain. (Someone said that corn is a grain and I said no. I was wrong.)

There were many aftershocks. (There is a 10 – 20 percent chance of another big quake in the near future.)

There is no water or electricity. (There was no water for the fire trucks.)

He was a famous cartoonist. (His cartoons are famous worldwide.)

There were two major incidents. (Earthquakes are not accidents.)

I asked her not to visit us. (She wasn’t feeling well during the New Year holiday.)

She was making a fuss. (She was angry or over-excited about something.)

Farther is used for physical distance. (Please move the table farther back.)

Further is used figuratively. (I will not explain this any further.)

How many people joined the Procrastinator’s Club? (Nobody, they all were procrastinating.)

He has prostate cancer. (This is a male’s cancer.)

The word "marshmallow" comes from the mallow plant which grows in marshes. (Egyptians used the marshmallow as a cough medicine.)

We’re not getting any younger. (Let’s enjoy life!)

He is becoming childish. (Her elderly husband is acting like a child.)

We are living on a fixed income. (They are living on their retirement income.)

I’m getting a little flabby around the waist. (My too, all over my body!)

I broke 100 in golf. (Her golf score was under 100.)

I am fit as a fiddle. (I’m very healthy.)

There have been many aftershocks. (The ground continues to shake after the big earthquake.)

What part of speech is “nutritious”? (There are nine parts of speech, but the following are the most common: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition.)

“Erare humanum est” is Latin for “to error is human” which is similar to “accidents happen.” (We all make mistakes or have accidents.)