Sometimes, during winter doldrums deep, this word for "synopsis" I'll say out loud / To hear an adjective for fine July days, with hiking and cookouts, with warmness endowed.
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Sometimes, during winter doldrums deep, this word for "synopsis" I'll say out loud / To hear an adjective for fine July days, with hiking and cookouts, with warmness endowed.
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It's hard rock that sits at the base of loose soil -- a handy geological noun. / (I think a documentary that I saw as a kid gave this name to a stone-age town.)
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To renew your mastery of a skill forgotten. (Not needed for riding a bicycle, I suppose.) / The word sounds a little like a genuine vase -- like a "real urn", if you scrunch up your nose.
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A sword used in fencing (American spelling), to epees and foils so linked. / It's also a kind of tooth for a tiger. (Well, it is for one that's extinct.)
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"To not be honored for what I achieved? Seemed a little ungracious," moaned Fred. / Sue scoffed, "I guess you believe you deserve an award. Well, one's hidden for you in what you just said."
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A pleasant smell, as from freshly baked bread. / (Ahh... Such a smell! It brings me sweet bliss!) / Or, a possible response to a farmstand query: "What kind of tomato is this?"
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It's a Canadian territory to which prospectors fled, once gold had been found in its streams. / It sounds like a school with another kind of gold: their women's and men's basketball teams.
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