November 16, 2022

Vocabulary Word of the day (Merriam Webster) Facetious - adjective (fuh-SEE-shuss) Facetious means "joking often inappropriately" or "meant to be humorous or funny." It usually describes something said or done as being annoying, silly, or improper. // I was just being facetious. Augur - verb (AW-gur) To augur is to show or suggest, especially from omens, that something might happen in the future. Used most often in formal speech or writing, augur is often followed by an adverb (such as well). // The downturn augurs badly for the success of the business. // This bad news could augur disaster for all of us.

Trivia: What Day is it Today? November 16th is the 320th day in the Gregorian calendar. On this day pop group Milli Vanilli was stripped of their Grammy Award when it was discovered they didn't actually do any of the singing on the record that won; the United States and the Soviet Union first established diplomatic relations, and the Federal Reserve Bank officially opened. - International Day For Tolerance - BOTOX® Cosmetic (onabotulinumtoxinA) Day - Clarinet Day - Education Support Professionals Day - Geographic Information Systems Day - Have a Party with your Bear Day - National Andy Day - National Charles Day - World Pancreatic Cancer Day - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C.O.P.D.) Day

Topic: Tolerance 1. What is the difference, if any, between tolerance, understanding, and acceptance? 2. What does tolerance mean to you? 3. Is tolerance a quality you value in yourself and others? Why or why not? 4. Have you experienced being the target of intolerance? What happened? 5. Is there risk in tolerating those different from you? If so, what is the risk? 6. What, if anything, causes you to be intolerant?

Tongue Twisters for advanced English speakers  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?  Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas  There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

 When I went to Warsaw, I saw a saw that could out saw any saw that I ever saw. Now, if you go to Warsaw and see a saw that could out saw the saw I saw, I'd like to see your saw saw.  Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches. So whether the temperature's rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.