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Monday, December 21, 2009

English 10 -- Catch-up Day

We catch-up book reports, and then we played this thesaurus game:

Thesaurus Christmas Carols

1. Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief. (Answer: O Come all ye faithful)

2. Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.

3. Nocturnal time span of unbroken quietness.

4. An emotion excited by the acquisition of expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere.

5. Embellish the interior passageways.

6. Exalted heavenly beings to whom harkened.

7. Twelve o’clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival.

8. The Christmas preceding all others.

9. Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem.

10. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinders.

11. Omnipotent Supreme Being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.

12. Tranquility upon the terrestrial sphere.

13. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals.

14. Expectation of arrival of populated area by mythical, masculine perennial gift-giver.

15. Natal Celebration devoid of color, rather albino, as a hallucinatory phenomenon for me.

16. In awe of the nocturnal time span characterized by religiosity.

17. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of Mother Nature’s dormancy.

18. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state.

19. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups.

20. In a distant location the existence of an improvised unit of newborn children’s slumber furniture.


1.  Where would you go to hear Silver Bells?

2.  Who was it that danced with the silk hat on his head?

3.  Where would you find Reindeer Paws?

4.  What did the cattle do to wake the poor baby?

5.  When did I see those three ships?

6.  What size were those Kings of the Orient?

7.  What is it that helps to make the season bright.?

8.  Who wants a pair of hop-a-long boots, and a pistol that shoots?

9.  Who still wants a hula a hoop?

10. Who kept time to the drum?

11. Who and what color was the animal that gave the hay to pillow his head ?

12. Where do the hopes and fears of all the years meet?

13. What would keep me warm all the way home?

14. What does Susie want?

15. Why does the child want his two front teeth?

16. What was the other reindeer's name?

17. What was the horse in Jingle bells named?

18. Where does one go a wassailing?

19. What color is Christmas without you?

20. What is the parson in the meadows name?