The PANSY… derives from the French pensee or pansee in the sense of thought. The Pansy has come to symbolize…
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The LILAC… derives its name from the Spanish lilac, Arabic lilak, Persian lilak, a variant of nilak meaning “bluish,” and…
The DAY LILY… The Day Lily gets it name from the Greek word Hemerocallis, meaning day (hemera) and beautiful (kalos).…
The PEAR BLOSSOM… a lovely, white 5-pedaled flower that blooms in early spring, but lasts for a short period of…
The CHERRY BLOSSOM… so lovely, so transient, so glorious as it blooms en masse and then passes, welcoming us into…
The DANDELION: the dandelion got its name from the toothed outline of its leaves… dent de lion, meaning lion’s tooth.…
The TULIP… Once known as the tulipa, tulippa, tulipant or Turkes Cap, the tulip was introduced from Turkey into Western…
Literacy comes with knowing words… having seen them, read them, talked about them, felt them. Literacy comes with having frames…
Let’s end our April Showers Word Powers with an intriguing downpour! The following 8-letter words end with the same 4…
Today’s word: aitch HHHHmmmm. How would you pronounce this word? What the heck!? How ’bout H, as in the letter…
Today’s word: Muse The word Muse refers to one of the 9 goddesses known as the inspiration of learning and…
You’ve heard of the gorilla… but have you heard of the zorilla? Yes, zorilla, derived from the French zorille and…
There are days when the fritinancy of insects awakens me to the realization that I am yawpish for jentaculum. WHAT?…
X marks the spot. (This idiom means the exact location of something, and has nothing to do with our WORD…
You may very well know of Wuthering Heights, the novel by Emily Bronte. But do you know the meaning of…
A WORD can come to us in the most interesting way. Take the word varec, for example. Do you have…
Can you finish this sentence: An urson is the Canadian ___________. How ’bout another hint: The urson was once thought…
We’ve gathered quite a menagerie of animal types under our April umbrella of APRIL SHOWERS BRING WORD POWERS! Kids love…
WORDS. They roll off our lips. They magically appear at the tips of our pens. They make us smile and…
Have you ever seen the wide-eyed excitement of a child when he or she learns a new WORD? It’s one…
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