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Omnia Vincit Amor
Saturday is Valentine's Day. It's not too late to order roses for your sweetheart. Here are some words, thoughts, and notions you might want to keep in mind as you pour out your love in that elaborate, $10.95 card you bought at the drugstore.
1. aubade: (a) the lower, or V portion, of a valentine; (b) to have a high regard for; (c) a song or poem of lovers parting at dawn; (d) a valentine card expressing deep sentiment.
2. Isolde: (a) an Irish princess married to King Mark of Cornwall and loved by Tristram; (b) Latin for Cupid; (c) the heroine of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Isolde who dies for love of Romeo; (d) what your author is, regarding age.
3. eye rhyme: (a) palindromic verse--example: TOO HOT TO HOOT; (b) an imperfect rhyme that appears to have identical vowel sounds from similarity of spelling (as move and love); (c) "I'm a poet and you didn't know it"; (d) a famous phrase twisted, as in "I came. I saw. I edited."
4. St. Valentine's home turf: (a) Rome; (b) Paris; (c) London; (d) Las Vegas.
5. agape: (a) earnestness; (b) heart-shaped; (c) love; (d) red.
6. neophilia: (a) capitalized: Neo's android lover in Matrix: Regurgitated; (b) love of or enthusiasm for what is dark or scandalous; (c) love of or enthusiasm for what is simple or infantile; (d) love of or enthusiasm for what is new or novel.
7. billet-doux: (a) love letter; (b) two-faced; (c) lover of war; (d) a half-hearted attempt.
8. Song of Solomon: (a) the greatest-hit love song of the 1980s, at the top of the charts for 58 straight weeks; (b) a collection of love poems forming a book in the Protestant canon of the Old Testament; (c) short-lived television sitcom portraying a New York diamond seller and his seemingly unending love failures; (d) "I give up, but hum a few bars and I bet I'll get it." (drum and cymbal crash, please)
9. enamor: (a) extol; (b) to lovingly beautify with a colorful surface; (c) unshakable affection; (d) to inflame with love.
10. omnia vincit amor: (a) love never dies; (b) love conquers all; (c) love your neighbor; (d) love is a many splendored thing.
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Answers: 1:c 2:a 3:b 4:a 5:c 6:d 7:a 8:b 9:d 10:b Rate yourself, conversationally: LOSER.
3 to 5 correct: TRY HARDER.
6 to 7 correct: 2 CUTE.
8 to 9 correct: NICE TRY.
All 10 correct: SWEETIE PIE!
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Further or Farther
Use farther when referring to distance. Use further when referring to a greater degree or extent.
Ellen swam farther than anyone ever has on Long Lake.
Mr. MacGregor went further in his objections, bringing up the matter of the stolen carrots and turnips.
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score
Pronunciation: skor
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English scor, from Old Norse Mi notch, tally, twenty; akin to Old English scieran to cut
Date: 14th century
Definition: twenty (among other definitions)
Example: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate.we can not consecrate.we can not hallow.this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863, Gettysburg, Penn. (Today, Feb. 12, is the anniversary of Lincoln's birth in 1809, in what was Hardin County, Ky.)
Definition source: Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary.
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