Wednesday, February 23, 2011

THE BOOKWORM SOFA -friday edition's top 5

LEARNING TERMS IN LEISURE AND STYLE


1.) inoculate - to introduce a vaccine or other agent into a body to create or hike immunity to a disease.

"The new soldiers were inoculated against typhoid"
here's a sample of self-inoculation:



2.) deciduous - Shedding leaves at the end of a growing season and regrowing them at the beginning of the next season.

"When autumn arrives and the rakes come out of their sheds, I often wish I had fewer deciduous trees in my backyard."
an example of deciduous forest




3.) tundra - Cold, treeless, usually lowland area of far northern regions.

"I'm not sure that planning a picnic out on the tundra at any time of the year is a good idea."




4.)slough - to shed as with an outer layer of skin.

"The kids got a kick out of watching that king cobra slough its skin."




5.) simian - resembling or characteristic of apes or monkeys.

"I don't know how the boss tolerates all his scratching and simian antics."

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