Words June 2024 Week 3

We tried sitting on the chair. (He bought a cushion for back support.)

My daughter asked me what I wanted for my birthday. (Don’t say, my daughter asked me, “what do you want for your birthday?”

It is a Playland for young children. (It was a children’s amusement park.)

The first Ferris Wheel was made by Mr. Ferris for the Chicago World Fair in 1893. (It was 80 meters high, with 36 cars and each car carried 60 people.)

There was an outdoor hot spring bath. (You can soak in the hot water and enjoy watching the stars.)

The man sitting next to me asked where my hometown was. (It turns out that this stranger’s sister’s husband was my students junior high school teacher. It’s a small world.)

The doctor prescribed eyedrops. (The eyedrops improved her vision.)

We had a class reunion. (It had been 30 years since they last saw each other.)

On Wednesday I will go to a party with some old colleagues. (They were all teachers once upon a time.)

We have been keeping in touch with each other for over 30 years. (They meet a couple times a year.)

Lightning bug is another name for firefly. (Now is the season to see them.)

To throw a monkey in the works means the words do not help you understand its meaning. (Sounds like me.)

He’s as funny as a barrel of monkeys. (Me again?)

I slacked off from walking every day. (She became lazy for a while.)

The term “I need a bio-break” means “I have to go to the restroom” and originated in the 1990s. (Other terms are “nature calls,” “I gotta go to the boy’s/girl’s room,” “I need to take a leak,” “talk to a man about a horse,” “powder my nose (old),” etc., etc., etc.)

I hung the onions out to dry. (He dug up onions from his garden.)

She screamed when she saw a gecko. (She “cried out” is ok, but don’t say just, “She cried” unless tears are going down her face.)

She had much debt. (She was in much debt, or she owed people a lot of money.)

From now on, the days will become shorter. (The summer solstice is on June 20 or 21 and is the longest day of the year.)

He sent an innocent man to jail. (The judge felt bad, so he quit his job.)