Reward, Intermediate, Lesson 23

Valentine

Apple, rose, onion, moon, heart, spanner, ring, strawberry, chrysanthemum, snake, spanner n. tool for turning a nut on a bolt etc.

strawberry n. (pl. -ies) 1 pulpy red fruit with a seed-studded surface. 2 plant with runners and white flowers bearing this. [Old English: related to *straw, for unknown reason]

Word History: Izaak Walton's 1655 comment, “We may say of Angling as Dr. Boteler said of Strawberries; Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did,” is perhaps the nicest use of the word strawberry in its history. This history goes back much further in English to the Old English period when the word is first recorded. We know that strawberry was formed during that period from the Old English ancestors of our words straw and berry. What is not known is why the word straw is the first part of this compound. One possibility is that the small, one-seeded fruits on the surface of a strawberry resemble fragments of straw.

Blind - sightless

Wobbling - sway from side to side.

Grief is deep, acute personal sorrow, as that arising from irreplaceable loss.

cute delightfully pretty; clever.

loop n. 1 a figure produced by a curve, or a doubled thread etc., that crosses itself.

cling

1. To hold fast or adhere to something: clung to the rope to keep from falling; fabrics that cling to the body. 2. To remain close; resist separation: We clung together in the storm. 3. To remain emotionally attached; hold on: clinging to outdated customs.

honest (fair and just),

direct, aggressive,

cruel (causing pain or suffering),

possessive (jealous and domineering),

faithful (showing faith; loyal, trustworthy; accurate),

jealous, angry, cynical,

sarcastic (marked by a feeling of bitterness),

passionate,

unfaithful (not faithful, esp. adulterous).