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25 May 2020
Improving words (16)
Adversity: A college that teaches advertising
Assailing: Suffering from a disease of the posterior
Candidate: A tryst at the chocolate store
Catching: A bell-like sound made by felines
Contest: The opposite of protest
Descent: To get rid of a smell
Determine: To scare off excavation to extract minerals from the ground
Examination: The land of your former friends from France
Fanfare: Food for enthusiasts
Impeccable: Immune to attack from woodpeckers
Incapacity: I have a whole large town inside my hat
Industrial: A legal proceeding against a large river in Pakistan
Lapsing: To perform a song while resting on the thighs of a sitting person
Mentally: A count of the number of adult males
Misspelt: The winner of a beauty pageant featuring fur clothing
Program: In favor of a tiny metric unit of weight
Reverse: To put a text back into poetic form
Tenant: Nearly a dozen small insects
Tuberculosis: The act of shoving a potato up the ass of one's Spanish sister
Weevil: Us be real bad people
[The previous "improving words" post is here.]
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Haha
ReplyDeleteAssailing and misspelt. Love!
XoXo
re Program.
ReplyDeleteThe gram is a metric unit of mass, not of weight.
I loved your definitions. They made me chuckle and today I needed that since I wasn't feeling up to par. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSixpence: I try.....
ReplyDeleteOle: Oh, fuck off. 99% of the time it's used to refer to weight. The dictionary defines it as "a metric unit of mass or weight".
Mildred: Always glad to help -- I think we can all use some occasional diversion these days.
These grabbed me from the beginning with ... Adversity then Candidate being a tryst at the chocolate store. Got me to smiling right away. Thank you for the insights and the chuckles, just what I needed.
ReplyDeleteWishing you well, my friend! Stay Safe!!
Assailing - very funny to my immature sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteContest could also be a requirement to get out of prison.
ReplyDeleteThese are hilarious! Particularly "assailing"(lol) Air Hugs, RO
ReplyDeleteI loved this so much..very very smart.
ReplyDeleteNow, now, don't fight over what gram means. While it can be a unit of weight or mass, program is actually an offshoot of AARP, and it promotes the interests of grandmothers. It promotes exercise for grandma (cardiogram), prepaid funeral expenses (cryptogram), Cardi B impersonator's rap music (cardiogram), streaming TV services (cablegram), streaming music (radiogram) and, of course, sweets for the sweet (candygram). They even have a daily program for abuelas (diagram).
ReplyDeleteThank you for the mental distraction.
Took me a minute to get "misspelt" but then my one last remaining brain cell kicked in!
ReplyDeleteThat was hysterical - & I needed it!
ReplyDeleteDellgirl: Glad to offer some entertainment.
ReplyDeleteLady M: It reflects my own immature sense of humor.
Mike: Or a parole hearing.....
RO: :-)
JackieSue: I try.....
Nonnie: I'm stealing some of those, as soon as I figure out how.
Debra: I'm still waiting for someone unfamiliar with non-US spelling to tell me it's misspelt.
Loretta: Thanks! Plenty more where these came from -- this is the 16th set I've done.
Catastrophe: The grand prize for la belle derierre at the cat show.
ReplyDelete:-)
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