Words November 2023 Week 3

We should praise our children when they do well. (We should tell our children they did a good job.)

You can bid on items sold on eBay. (To “bid” means to offer a price for something.)

Crawfish are also called crayfish and crawdads. (Crawfish claws, a.k.a. pinchers, are used for defense and eating.)

Ome City was known as a weaving center for cotton textiles during the Edo Era. (Their blue indigo material was very popular.)

A juvenile is a person under 18 years old. (Ages 10, 11 and 12 are usually considered the pre-teen years.)

He is in the seventh grade. (He is in the first year of junior high school.)

A “doozy” is something that is very good, very bad, very big, etc. (That thunderstorm last night was a doozy.)

“Where” is used as a conjunction such as, “in the place that” or “in the situation that.” (Charades is a game where gestures are used to communicate.)

Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan). (There are many Kurd refugees living in Japan.)

Many politicians are wishy-washy. (They change their minds easily.)

Vaudeville is an old-style variety show. (Vaudeville originated in France and was popular in the US in the 1930s.)

The admission fee was 500 yen. (It cost 500 yen to enter the event.)

I doubled-up the books on the bookshelf. (She had twice as many books on the shelf.)

I thought that I would have to cancel because of my mother’s condition. (Her 95-year-old mother was in serious condition.)

They are like two peas in a pod. (The two of them are very similar to each other.)

I’ll explain the song lyrics. (I’ll tell you the meaning of the song words.)