In lieu of Friday word association, I give you my dughter's English homework.

**InspectorGadget** · 03-02-2007, 10:22 AM

And because there's new snow in the Wasatch, I'm invoking the powder clause this morning.

The assignment wasn't terribly difficult, but it was kind of fun.

Do one and leave the rest for someone else.

Example: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific.

Answer: Twinkle, twinkle little star.

1. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

2. Surveillance should precede saltation.

3. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

4. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

5. Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

6. The stylus has greater potency than the claymore.

7. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

8. Eschew the implement of corrections and vitiate the scion.

9. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

10. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not necessarily truly auriferous.

11. In the presence of visible vapors having their prevenience in ignited carbonaceous materials is conflagration.

12. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

13. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary technique vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles.

14. Eleemosynary deeds have the incipience intramurally.

15. Male cadavers are incapable ot yielding testimony.

16. Individuals making their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.

17. Neophyte's serendipity.

18. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores with interlude of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebatudinous homosapien.

19. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small, green bryophitic planet.

20. A person presenting the ultimate cachinnation thereby the optimal cachinnation.

21. Abstention from an aleatory undertaking preclude the potential escalation of a lucrative nature.

22. Missiles of ligneous or onerous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

**mc_roon** · 03-02-2007, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by InspectorGadget

15. Male cadavers are incapable ot yielding testimony.

dead men cant talk

**MarsB** · 03-02-2007, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by mc_roon

dead men tell no tales

fixed...

**girlski0912** · 03-02-2007, 10:26 AM

18. All work and no play makes John a dull boy (or something like that...I can relate. Maybe John and I should hang out more.)

**skimoore** · 03-02-2007, 10:27 AM

19. A rolling stone gathers no moss

**tarkman1** · 03-02-2007, 10:31 AM

6. The pen is mightier than the sword.

**Toadman** · 03-02-2007, 10:32 AM

Lucky # 13 - Too many cooks spoil the soup. (broth)

**doublediamond223** · 03-02-2007, 10:34 AM

1. Birds of a feather flock together

**f2f** · 03-02-2007, 10:34 AM

2. look before you jump?

this is not as easy as it seems for a non-native speaker with a minute vocabulary

**f2f** · 03-02-2007, 10:35 AM

17 Beginner's luck

and i figured out a couple more, but i'll leave it to others

**schuss** · 03-02-2007, 10:36 AM

1. Birds of a feather flock together

, I got beat.

16. Those in glass houses should not throw stones

**VTskibum** · 03-02-2007, 10:37 AM

4. Don't cry over spilled milk

**hikeitfirst** · 03-02-2007, 10:41 AM

used to do that in school too... so sorry...

**InspectorGadget** · 03-02-2007, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by f2f

2. look before you jump?

this is not as easy as it seems for a non-native speaker with a minute vocabulary

Look before you leap.

Good work for an ESL student.

Originally Posted by f2f

and i figured out a couple more, but i'll leave it to others

I should hope so; but, considering your ESL status . . . .

**InspectorGadget** · 03-02-2007, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by hikeitfirst

ok that's all I got. (I'm exhausted from that)

Nice job, JONG!

Reading is fundamental.

Do one and leave the rest for someone else.

**StoneCold** · 03-02-2007, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by InspectorGadget

3. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

Beauty is only skin deep.

**Viva** · 03-02-2007, 10:47 AM

7. Can't teach an old dog new tricks.

**AbsolutStoli** · 03-02-2007, 10:58 AM

9. a watched pot never boils.

these are fun! i got a bunch.

**BeanDip4All** · 03-02-2007, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by InspectorGadget

22. Missiles of ligneous or onerous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.