Live and Learn English with Jean Lee

Today's answers are a word, name, or phrase that contain only two consonants B and R, repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels. Ex. Prickly bush --> BRIAR   *Picture  Source:  https://stock.adobe.com/images/golden-letter-b-and-r-br-vintage-decorative-letter-logo-icon/286809539 1. Material in an automobile tire 2. Thief 3. Hairstylist 4. Congregation leader at a synogogue 5. Illegal payment 6. Doll from Mattel 7. Elephant of children's literature 8. Singer Justin 9. First lady married to the first George Bush 10. Small donkey 11. Fence or other obstacle 12. Island in French Polynesia with a repetitive name (2 wds.) 13. Cub in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon (3 wds.)   Answer Keys     1.    rubber                 2.    robber     3.    barber     4.    rabbi     5.    bribe...

  Thanksgiving is one of the biggest holidays for Americans to celebrate with their beloved family or friends in a year. Here are some words and phrases related to Thanksgiving or those you could associate with Thanksgiving day. Hope you all have a warm and peaceful time.      1.   Cold turkey Meaning: to stop using an addictive substance abruptly and completely to undergo sudden and complete withdrawal from a habitual activity or behavior pattern (*you can use it as a noun or an adverb) Example: Frank gave up his drug addiction cold turkey.       2.   Gobble up Meaning: to eat something in its entirety very quickly or to use, buy, or occupy all of something. Example: 1. Everyone invited to the Thanksgiving dinner gobbled up the 18 pounds of turkey immediately.                2. American shoppers gobbled up electronics in the stores the day after Than...

For each of these given words or phrases, change exactly two letters to name a country. Hint: You never have to change the first letter of my word. Ex. SOLARIA --> SOMALIA 1. ALGEBRA 2. NORMAL 3. TUSKED 4. MEDICS 5. CANARY 6. RUSTIC 7. GRIEVE 8. HANGARS 9. TUNES IN 10. SEVERAL 11. PAPAYA 12. CAME UPON     <Answer Keys> 1.    Algeria 2.    Norway 3.    Turkey 4.    Mexico 5.    Canada 6.    Russia 7.    Greece 8.    Hungary 9.    Tunisia 10.                  Senegal 11.                  Panama 12.                  Cameroon (*Picture Source:  http://alphabetpassport.com/letters.php)

  I'm going to give you some categories. For each one, take the last two letters, reverse them, and use those as the starting letters of something in the category. Example: Direction --> North 1.    U.S. coin 2. Sport with a net 3. City in Texas 4. Sculptor 5. Sign of the zodiac 6. Egyptian queen 7. Sea 8. Historic ship 9 English poet 10. Brand of soap 11. Brand of sneaker 12. Ice-cream flavor (2 wds.)     Answer Keys 1.    Nickel 2.    Tennis 3.    San Antonia 4.    Rodin 5.    Cancer/ Capricorn 6.    Nefertiti 7.    Aegean sea 8.    Pirate ship 9.    Tennyson 10.    Palmolive 11.   Reebok 12.   Rocky Road

Each question has two words. Drop one letter in each of them to leave two words that are in the same category of things. Example: DRILL STAGE --> dill & sage (both herbs) (*picture source:  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Related-Words-Categories-3255955) 1.    THEN THIRSTY 2.    BOOST SHORE 3. LINDEN SATING 4. BUNGLE SHORN 5. JUDGE PESTER 6. CANINES NIECE 7. COUNTY PEARL 8. BRASS TREMBLE 9. LOITER GALLEON 10. LAUNCH SCUPPER <Answer Keys> 1.    ten & thirty (numbers) 2.    boot & shoe (footwear) 3.    linen & satin (cloth) 4.    bugle & horn (wind instruments) 5.    Jude & Peter (Saints) 6.    Cannes & Nice (famous resort areas in Southern Coast of France) 7.    Count & Earl (the nobility ranking) 8.    bass & treble   (the functions that change the lower and higher f...

Times flies even when we’re NOT having fun. For every living things on the earth, the past two years have felt like blank pages full of a lot of muted pain, frustration, and dark despair. Even though there seems to be no clear finish line to this uneasy situation, let us keep hoping and praying for another sunrise when we all could breathe out a sigh of relief and say “Whew…it was a tough ride. Now it is history, ain’t it?” Here I am presenting some invaluable quotes of famous people, through which we are able to gain confidence get back on our own feet in times of trouble.   (*image source: https://steemit.com/life/@rydographer/life-full-of-pains)    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” …. Winston Churchill       “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” …. Dolly Parton       “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a gre...

I'm going to give you clues for two words. Insert the letters A-T consecutively inside the answer to the first clue to get the answer to the second. Example: One who says "Semper fi" / Soak in herbs and spices --> MARIN(AT)E 1. Go through again, as an experience / Uncle or cousin 2. Hunter constellation / Grand speech 3. Name of a sea off the coast of Alaska / Chewing out 4. Buddhist place of worship / Shaped pattern used for making reproductions 5. Voltaire satire / One running for office 6. Pierce slightly, as with a needle / Saint celebrated on March 17 7. Longtime leader of Cuba / Male singer with a high voice 8. Like flypaper / Like radio reception during a storm 9. Act of changing from one form to another, as Fahrenheit to Celsius / Chat between two or more people (*picture source: https://www.123rf.com/photo_63397116_stock-vector-a-t-vintage-initials-symbol-letters-a-t-ampersand-surrounded-floral-ornament-wedding-or-business-par.html) Answer Keys 1. rel(at)tive:...