Words September 2024 Week 2

The parts of the corn plant are corn stalk, ear of corn, corn husk, corn silk, kernels of corn and the corncob. (It’s been a long while since I ate corn off the cob.)

General McArthur smoked a corncob pipe. (In the old days, farmers would make a pipe from a corn cob and smoke dried-cornsilk.)

The bicycle swerved around a person walking in the street. (To swerve means to turn quickly.)

He scratched his arm when he fell in the garden. (He bled a lot but is now ok.)

They put up the scaffolding around my house. (They are replacing the roof and painting the exterior of the house.)

I can’t hang the laundry outside. (It will take about a month to complete all the work.)

I prefer driving to walking. (I would rather drive than walk.)

My bathroom scale is high tech. (It can check many things such as…)

Every day is boring since he can’t hear the TV or radio. (The hearing aid doesn’t work. Sounds with low frequency are easier to hear than high frequency.)

“I don’t care” is very strong and can be rude sometimes. (“I don’t mind” and “I don’t worry” sound much more polite.)

When I was an elementary school student, we had to keep track of the daily temperatures. (Don’t say “elementary student.”)

We traveled here and there during the holiday. (When you do something for a period of time, you should say “during that time.”)

The typhoon caused landslides and flooding. (Sometimes the wind doesn’t cause much damage, but the torrential rains will.)

Once winds exceed 33 meters per second it will be designated a hurricane or typhoon. (The storms are given names once the winds reach this speed.)

I started a new insurance plan. (There are many types of insurance that you can buy.)

There is a cool breeze. (A breeze is a light wind.)

The test was a breeze. (The test was easy.)

We were just shooting the breeze. (We were just talking about nothing important.)

I will probably have chemotherapy. (Chemotherapy are very strong chemicals that kill fast growing cells in your body such as cancer.)

The water is running. (Someone didn’t turn the water off in the sink.)

He has short-term memory loss. (This is a type of dementia.)

I looked everywhere for my shoes. (She usually wears black shoes. When she was leaving the clinic, she couldn’t find them. Finally, she realized that she wore white shoes on that day.)

190,000,000 people have visited the Tokyo Tower since it opened 60 years ago. (The 190 millionth visitor was from Seattle.)

I cancelled the online order. (She lost her Suica card and was going to buy one online, but the Fussa Police station called her saying that they had it.)

Ukiyo-e are paintings and woodblock prints which originated in the late seventeenth century. (“The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most famous prints.)

I had a pinched nerve. (He had a back pain, but he is ok now.)

I walked along the foot of the hill. (It was a scenic walk.)

I took a one-day trip to Shizuoka. (She went to visit her sick father.)

Vinegar enhances the flavor of the food. (Lemon juice also makes the food taste better.)

Maybe the birds migrated for the winter. (They will return in the spring.)