Words August 2024 Week 1

The preschool has a wading pool. (A wading pool is only one or two feet deep for very small children.)

Children wearing diapers cannot play in the pool. (That is logical.)

They are trimming the trees. (They are making the trees into a nice shape.)

My house is on a dead-end street. (You must turn your car around to leave.)

The strange men were checking to see if the doors were unlocked. (They were probably thieves.)

They had an open house on Saturday and Sunday. (Potential buyers could look inside the house.)

I was soaking wet. (It started raining heavily while she was working outside.)

I didn’t want to trim the hedge because it was too hot. (She finally borrowed an electric trimmer which made it much easier.)

The fire warning was a false alarm. (There was no fire.)

The “ooh-aah bird” lays square eggs. (When it lays eggs, it goes “ooooh”, “aaaah!”)

He wrote his letters in small print. (It was difficult to read.)

I got four new 1,000-yen notes from the ATM. (The note’s serial numbers were in consecutive order.)

It used to be a cram school. (It is now a Japanese language school.)

I didn’t ask them where they were from. (She volunteered to help foreigners to get dressed into yukata.)

Lightning can heat the air around it to 30,000°C. (This extreme heating causes the air to expand explosively fast.)

The expansion creates a shock wave that turns into a booming sound wave. (A.k.a. thunder.)

We had a coworker’s reunion. (They used to work in the same section but now work in different cities.)

The most common meaning for “smart” is “intelligent.” (Japanese often use the word smart to mean slender or stylish.)

Smart can also mean pain, sarcastic, sharp, etc. (I cut my finger, and it smarts. Example of sarcastic – “You were soooo helpful,” which means you were not helpful at all. He looks sharp in his new suit. Also, sharp can mean that a person is quick witted.)

That Japanese restaurant opened 20 years ago. (They held an anniversary event with Geisha.)

She goes to a chiropractor. (Bonesetter is another name for chiropractor.)

1, 3, 5, 7, etc. are odd numbers. (2, 4, 6, 8, etc. are even numbers.)

The most popular brand of pack rice is Sato no Gohan. (This microwave rice is very convenient.)