get a move on

You’d better get a move on, darling. If you don’t hurry you’ll miss the train.

Could you get a move on?

She told her partner to get a move on or they would be late.

the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening

on a day/night/morning/afternoon/evening in the recent past

The other morning, I saw a deer on our lawn.

backseat driver

backseat driver

bed head

He is a small man with a salt-and-pepper beard, very bright brown eyes and a perpetual case of bed head, little tufts flying every which way.— Alex Witchel

city slicker

city slickers who’ve never seen a real farm

party pooper

Don’t be such a party pooper!

a party pooper who insisted they turn the music down

tear down

Tear down this wall! - Ronald Reagan

treble clef

• a clef that places G above middle C on the second line of the staff

bass clef

• a clef placing the F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff

baguette

baguette

noun

On a first-time trip to Paris, biting into the city’s best baguettes and croissants is as much on the bucket list for many as a visit to the Eiffel Tower or Louvre. — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025

kinsman

kinsman

noun

A near neighbour is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

broom

broom

noun

A new broom sweeps clean.

groom

groom

noun

copycat

copycat

noun

She called me a copycat for wearing the same dress.

provoke

provoke

verb

The animal will not attack unless it is provoked.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he advised Premier Doug Ford against running the anti-tariff ad campaign that provoked U.S. President Donald Trump and spurred him to break off trade negotiations. — Waterloo Region Record, November 3, 2025

bumpkin

bumpkin

noun

We enjoyed living a kind of country bumpkin way of life.

killjoy

killjoy

noun

his perpetually negative attitude made him a real killjoy when others were trying to have fun

homebody

homebody

noun

He’s a homebody who hates parties.

nitpick

nitpick

verb

My mom would nitpick everything about me, from my hair to my etiquette. — Bon Appétit, 14 May 2021

demolish

demolish

verb

The old factory was demolished to make way for a new parking lot.

foliage

foliage

noun

trees with colorful autumn foliage

Fall foliage experience is a feast for the eyes.

psychosis

psychosis

noun

Cannabis users now develop psychosis at five times the rate of non-users. — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024

veteran

veteran

noun

Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day

Canada’s oldest veteran turns 110 on Remembrance Day week.

staff

staff

noun

• the horizontal lines with their spaces on which music is written

itch

itch

verb

This sweater makes me itch.

noun

I had a slight itch on my back.

© selected from 1001 Quotations To Enlighten, Entertain, and Inspire, by Robert Arp

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. - Lucretius

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. - John Donne

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. - Mother Teresa

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Laozi

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. - Anthony Burgess

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. - William Wordsworth

That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. - Sydney Smith

I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no bitterness or hatred towards any one. - Edith Cavell

In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. - Nigerian Proverb

Man differs more from man, than man from beast. - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering. - Buddha

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. - Thomas H. Palmer

Remember that time is money. - Benjamin Franklin

Business? It’s quite simple. It’s other people’s money. - Alexandre Dumas the Younger

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvioir

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton

Man is a tool-using animal … Without tool he is nothing, with tool he is all. - Thomas Carlyle

Technology is useful servant but a dangerous master. - Christian Lous Lange

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

The important thing to remember is that the Internet is not a new form of life. It is just a new activity. - Esther Dyson

Chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing. - Wernher von Braun

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. - Paul Dirac

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part. - Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. - James Dean

Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. - Mikhail Bakunin

Continue to play Bach your way and I, his way. - Wanda Landowska

honesty is the best policy

idiom

He realized honesty is the best policy and told them what really happened to their car.

as old as the hills

idiom

So this message, that good, close relationships are good for our health and well-being, this is wisdom that’s as old as the hills. Why is this so hard to get and so easy to ignore? Well, we’re human. What we’d really like is a quick fix, something we can get that’ll make our lives good and keep them that way. Relationships are messy and they’re complicated and the hard work of tending to family and friends, it’s not sexy or glamorous. It’s also lifelong. It never ends. - What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness, by Robert Waldinger

(as) blind as a bat

idiom

Without glasses I’m blind as a bat.

I’m as blind as a bat without my glasses.

People in the U.S. use the phrase “blind as a bat” to rib someone for not being able to see well. - Myth Busting ‘Blind As A Bat’ And ‘Memory Of A Goldfish’

memory of a goldfish

There is a myth that goldfish have a memory of only three seconds.

For years, people have used: “You’ve got a memory like a goldfish,” as an insult, based on the misconception that they have a very short memory span. Actually, it’s a compliment. - Memory like a goldfish? Why this could be a good thing

Memory of a goldfish? Maybe you’re not so forgetful after all.

as deaf as a post

idiom

My grandmother’s a sweet old lady, but she’s as deaf as a post.

as good as gold

his promise is as good as gold

the child was as good as gold

The children were as good as gold while they stayed with their grandmother.

like the wind

idiom

We had to run like the wind to catch the bus!

as quiet as a mouse

idiom

In addition to being sophisticated, this appliance is both Energy Star and NSF certified, is as quiet as a mouse, and can both wash and dry dishes. — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2023

Paul is as quiet as a mouse. He never talks in meetings.

(as) big as life

I never expected her to come to the party, but there she was, as big as life.

People big as life, bright as day everywhere in this house. — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

as busy as a bee

idiom

She’s as busy as a bee.

as clear as day/daylight/anything

idiom

The sign said/read “Keep Out” as clear as day/daylight/anything.

(as) pretty as a picture

And just like that, your living room can be as pretty as a picture. — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021

(as) clear as a bell

Clear as a bell, I heard him say my name.

It was clear as a bell that morning—not a cloud in the sky.

The water was as clear as a bell.

a picture is worth a thousand words

idiom, Proverbs

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025

Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, a meme is worth a thousand tweets. — Ernesto Verdeja, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is a video worth? — Kristen Moon, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024

(it’s) better (to be) safe than sorry

It’s probably not necessary to check the figures again, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

So, for your well-being and pocketbook, better to be safe than sorry. — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

The clichés and the sayings about beauty are usually true, like how people say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2025

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, meaning is in the mind of the interpreter. — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

a watched pot never boils

Stop sitting by the phone waiting to hear if you got the job. A watched pot never boils.

there’s no time like the present

“Should we do it now?” “Sure. There’s no time like the present.”

Stop complaining about your toothache and call the dentist. There’s no time like the present.

And there’s no time like the present to get it at the lowest possible price. — Jake Smith, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023

a penny saved (is a penny earned)

Another study found that about 40% of Gen Xers don’t have a penny saved for retirement. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2024

two heads are better than one

idiom

We need to work together to figure this out. Two heads are better than one.

eat crow

He was forced to eat crow when the company fired him.

Tesla would have to eat a lot of crow to change their mind on this, but what better way to eat crow than to do it in a splash announcement. — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

He wanted to make his critics eat crow.

the so-called experts will be eating crow tonight.

eat humble pie

They had to eat humble pie when the rumors they were spreading were proved false.

After boasting that his company could outperform the industry’s best, he’s been forced to eat humble pie.

Anson was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to her.

sunset

sunset

noun

We worked from sunrise to sunset.

the golden light of sunset

A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to world that lies beyond. - The catches of life, Pieces of Mind, by C. E. M. Joad

subset

noun

the set of even numbers is a subset of the set of all numbers

a subset of our community

gibbous

gibbous

adjective

The waxing gibbous moon provided the perfect lighting for a night of spooky storytelling around the campfire.

At 3:30 a.m. the gibbous moon is high in the south and Perseus is nearly overhead. Set up a comfortable lawn chair facing away from any bright lights, ideally looking toward the northeast with the moon to your back. Have insect repellent handy along with hot chocolate, tea or coffee and enjoy the show. — Tim Hunter, The Arizona Daily Star, 7 Aug. 2025

ignite

ignite

verb

The fire was ignited by sparks.

a material that ignites easily

vent

vent

noun

Gas venting

revelation

revelation

noun

Sunlight, for instance, often stands in for divine grace or revelation.

We simply must rely on God to give us divine revelation by his Holy Spirit.

fuddy-duddy

fuddy-duddy

noun

They think I’m an old fuddy-duddy because I don’t approve of tattoos.

prank

prank

noun

He enjoys playing pranks on his friends.

as a prank, several students managed to change all the classroom clocks to different times

First reaction of Michel Devoret, 2025 Physics Nobel laureate: ‘I thought it was a prank. The quantum computer is not here yet’

mogul

mogul

noun

Hollywood moguls

industry moguls

Trump has already hinted at some names, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, billionaire tech investor Michael Dell, businessman and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and his son Lachlan Murdoch. — James Powel, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025

Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old tech billionaire-turned-media mogul.

chiropractic

chiropractic

noun

Some mainstream doctors may view it as a fringe treatment, but chiropractic is more commonly covered by insurance than any other type of alternative care.— Elizabeth R. Agnvall

adjective

Chiropractic treatment involves manual spinal adjustments to unblock the flow of energy and blood to the nervous system; it can also include nutritional counseling and stress management. — Corynne Corbett

boo-boo

boo-boo

noun

• a usually trivial injury (such as a bruise or scratch)
  — used especially by or of a child

When Cody trips and falls in the grass, his friends band together to comfort him and get him a bandage for his boo-boo. — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 9 May 2025

nasty

nasty

adjective

nasty living conditions

a nasty taste

living a cheap and nasty life — G. B. Shaw

She has a nasty habit of biting her fingernails.

That nasty old man yelled at me just for stepping on his lawn!

orator

orator

noun

Jeff Dean was a world-class engineer, not an orator. - Genius Makers, The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, Cade Metz

ponytail

ponytail

noun

She usually wears her hair pulled back in a ponytail.

In the United states, connectionist research nearly vanished from the top universities. The one serious lab was at New York University, where Yann Lecun took a professorship in 2003, his hair pulled back in a ponytail. - Genius Makers, The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, Cade Metz

bail

bail

noun

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his Liberal government will introduce legislation next week to crack down on crime by bringing in harsher sentencing and making bail much harder to get.

tact

tact

noun

questions showing a lack of tact

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton

The ability to show tact has been emphasized since the earliest proverbs, including this one from the Bible:”A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.“ - 1001 Quotations To Enlighten, Entertain, and Inspire, by Robert Arp

bloom

bloom

noun

the spring bloom

the roses are in bloom

the rosebush produces blooms only in midsummer

a handsome young man in the full bloom of youth

That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. - Henry Ford

How are you?

American English

Very common, often just a polite greeting, not always expecting a detailed answer.

Typical reply: “Good, thanks. How about you?” (even if not really “good”).

Tone is casual and friendly.

Canadian English

Used the same way as in American English.

Canadians might also add extra politeness: “Good, thanks! And yourself?”

Sometimes paired with “Hi there” or “Hey” for warmth.

British English

Also common, but sometimes interpreted more literally.

You might hear “Not bad, thanks” or “I’m alright” more often than “Good”.

Can sound slightly more formal than in North America, depending on context.

How do you do?

American English

Rare, sounds very formal or old-fashioned.

Most Americans would never use it in daily conversation.

Canadian English

Similar to American usage — hardly used except in very formal, ceremonial, or joking contexts.

British English

Still exists in formal settings (business introductions, very polite first meetings).

Important: it’s not really a question — it’s a formal greeting.

Standard reply: “How do you do?” (you repeat it back, rather than answering literally).

talk the talk

Sure, she talks the talk, but can she walk the walk? Will she actually do what she promises?

walk the walk

As the saying goes, “Don’t talk the talk unless you can walk the walk!”

pie in the sky

Is that even possible, or is that ‘pie in the sky’ thinking? — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025

meet one’s Waterloo

The governor finally met his Waterloo in the last election.

catch-22

noun

I’m in a catch-22: to get the job I need experience, but how do I get experience if I can’t get the job?

myopia

myopia

noun

She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.

Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds - The Guardian

atropine

atropine

noun

Atropine

reap

reap

verb

The workers were out reaping the crops.

The workers were out reaping in the fields.

He reaped large profits from his investments.

squid

squid

noun

sirloin

sirloin

noun

The star of the kitchen is the steak trompo, a huge beehive of strip and sirloin steaks skewered on a vertical spit, glossy with fat. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025

bewitching

bewitching

adjective

her bewitching eyes

a bewitching smile

bubbly

bubbly

adjective

a bubbly bottle of pop

She is pretty, bubbly, and smart.

cicada

cicada

noun

In the forests of North America, there is a species of cicada with a very strange life cycle. For 17 years, these cicadas hide underground doing very little except sucking on the roots of the trees. Then in May of the seventeenth year, they emerge at the surface en masse to invade the forest—up to a million of them per acre. - The Number Mysteries, by Marcus du Sautoy

artichoke

artichoke

noun

pigment

pigment

noun

Pigments are used to give color to paint, ink, and plastic.

Hinton often told the story of the time Minsky taught him how to make “perfect black” — a color with no color at all. You couldn’t make perfect black with pigments, Minsky explained, because they always reflected the light. - Chapter 2 Promise “old ideas are new”, Genius Makers - The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, by Cade Metz

commoner

commoner

noun

a prince who married a commoner

In Beethoven’s time Vienna still had a rigid class-based society each having their own brothels, restaurants and coffee houses (cafés). Beethoven, as a commoner and darling to aristocrats, had access to all kinds. Housing was not the brightest feature of contemporary Vienna thus locals spent leisure time in coffee houses. - Beethoven and his coffee

chore

chore

noun

The children were each assigned different household chores.

Doing taxes can be a real chore.

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When someone is doing a chore, what do you say?

“Can I help?”

hum

hum

verb

humming along with the music

The garden was humming with bees.

The refrigerator hummed in the background.

I was humming to myself.

the museum hummed with visitors

hum a tune

I hummed a little song.

the place was humming

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When people are talking, is it good manners to hum?

Humming when others are talking is disrespectful and distracting. Don’t hum!

pitmaster

pitmaster

noun

He was one of Houston’s most celebrated pitmasters and helped to kick off the barbecue renaissance here. — J. C. Reid

bellyache

bellyache

noun

He ate too much chili and it gave him a bellyache.

aerobic

aerobic

adjective

aerobic respiration

aerobic exercises like running and swimming

Aerobic exercise involves pushing your heart rate to 70% to 85% of its maximum, and keeping it there for 20 to 60 minutes at a time. — Tara Parker-Pope

dispersal

dispersal

noun

the dispersal of plant seeds in the forests through natural means

fencing

fencing

noun

Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting.

dough

dough

noun

Play-Doh, also known as Play-Dough

doughnut

doughnut

noun

drawing doughnuts in the sand

donut

noun

Coffee and donuts go hand in hand. — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025

How ‘Doughnut’ Became ‘Donut’

muffin

muffin

noun

equinox

equinox

noun

September equinox

barbell

barbell

noun

dumbbell

dumbbell

noun

I feel like a dumbbell for making such a stupid mistake.

dummy

dummy

noun

The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.

Only a dummy would ignore the safety warnings.

dumb

dumb

adjective

pretended to be dumb

asking dumb questions

I’m not dumb enough to believe that.

He was born deaf and dumb.

treadmill

treadmill

noun

My fitness center has three rows of treadmills and ellipticals. — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025

chin-up

chin-up

noun

Some examples include pull-ups, chin-ups, dumbbell rows, bent-over rows, lat pulldowns and inverted rows. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025

push-up

push-up

noun

Your arm muscles quiver lifting weights or during push-ups. — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025

stretch

stretch

verb

It’s important to stretch before you exercise.

She woke up and stretched her arms above her head.

noun

These are good stretches for your leg muscles.

I always spend a few minutes doing stretches before I exercise.

lunge

lunge

verb

The crocodile lunged at its prey.

noun

alligator

alligator

noun

crocodile

crocodile

noun

acquisition

acquisition

noun

Parmy Olson is a technology columnist at Bloomberg. Her reporting on Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp and the subsequent fallout resulted in two honorable mentions in the SABEW business journalism awards.

pigment

pigment

noun

Hinton often told the story of the time Minsky taught him how to make “perfect black” — a color with no color at all. You couldn’t make perfect black with pigments, Minsky explained, because they always reflected the light. - Chapter 2 Promise “old ideas are new”, Genius Makers, The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, by Cade Metz

Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states ‘invest’ in institutions of learning to get back ‘interest’ in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks — those purchasable wells of wisdom — what would civilization be like without its benefits?

So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers, lawyers and defendants, marriages and births - but our spiritual outlook would be different. We would lay less stress on ‘facts and figures’ and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of ‘college’ imaginable. Among tribal₁ people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life.

It is the ideal condition of the ‘equal start‘ which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain. In primitive cultures the obligation to seek and to receive the traditional instruction is binding to all. There are no ‘illiterates’ - if the term can be applied to peoples without a script - while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642, in France in 1806, and in England in 1876, and is still non-existent in a number of ‘civilized’ nations. This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the ‘happy few’ during the past centuries.

Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. All are entitled to an equal start. There is none of the hurry which, in our society, often hampers the full development of a growing personality. There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents; therefore the jungles and the savannahs know of no ‘juvenile delinquency’. No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children, and no father is confronted with his inability to ‘buy’ an education for his child.

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Lesson 33 Education in New Concept English Book 4: Fluency in English by Louis George Alexander were excerpted from Chapter 10 Education without Books in the The Origin Of Things - A Cultural History of Man by Julius E. Lips.

Why is education democratic in bookless, tribal societies?

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• The Origin Of Things by Julius E Lips
• [1] original text is : Among the people whom we like to call savages all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all;

read (someone) like a book

• understand what someone is thinking from his body language.

My mom always knows when I’m lying. She can read me like a book.

There are a number of books on the market which suggest that it is possible to learn to read a person like a book.

talk big

Linda likes to talk big. She claims she’s visited every country.

Expressons with “Give”

give someone a lift

Can you give me a lift into town?

I had a big suitcase, so Selma offered to give me a lift to the airport.

cruise

cruise

noun

• especially : a tour by ship

We went on a weeklong cruise down the Yangtze River.

They went on a cruise for their honeymoon.

Bruce Anchor Cruises

yacht

yacht

noun

For the past 18 months, orcas have been attacking boats and yachts in the Mediterranean Sea near the Strait of Gibraltar. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023

surfboard

surfboard

noun

deck chair

flip-flop

flip-flop

noun

snorkel

snorkel

noun

Additionally, each lagoon has areas for kayak, paddle board, floating tube and snorkel gear rentals. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2025

palm

palm

noun

pelican

pelican

noun

albatross

albatross

noun

recorder

recorder

noun

Peppa pig learns to play the recorder.

widower

widower

noun

Grief Forum – Loss of a Spouse: An eight-week program for widows and widowers who have lost their loved one. — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2025

yucky

yucky

adjective

The water was dirty and smelled yucky.

yummy

yummy

adjective

yummy desserts

a yummy meal that is also nutritious

parasol

parasol

noun

There were beach parasols in bright red-and-white stripes. — New York Times, 12 May 2020

pal

pal

noun

We’ve been pals since we were kids.

rub

rub

verb

Don’t rub too hard or you’ll tear the paper.

toss

toss

verb

toss a ball around

noun

They decided what to do by a coin toss.

the toss of a coin

gobble

gobble

verb

gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn’t eaten for days

Gobble breakfast.

nebulous

nebulous

adjective

A lot of philosophical concepts can seem nebulous at first, but a good instructor can cut through the jargon and help students see how they apply to day-to-day life.

nautilus

nautilus

noun

Nautilus shell

dahlia

dahlia

noun

fern

fern

noun

guinea pig

carriage

carriage

noun

scavenge

scavenge

verb

The bears scavenged the woods for food.

scavenger

scavenger

noun

Scanvenger Hunt

somersault

somersault

noun

The gymnast turned a somersault.

wrestle

wrestle

verb

They’ll be wrestling with each other for the championship.

deciduous

deciduous

adjective

maples, birches, and other deciduous trees

the bare branches of a deciduous tree in winter

deciduous trees

sprout

sprout

verb

seeds sprouting in the spring

The tree is already sprouting leaves.

The garden is sprouting weeds.

blossom

blossom

verb

he fruit tree seemed to blossom overnight once the warm spring weather arrived

noun

The cherry blossoms remain a major draw this time of year for Japan. — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024

vine

vine

noun

Pinch off the tips of squash and pumpkin vines to force energy into developing fruits instead of growing longer vines. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2025

bud

bud

noun

The bush has plenty of buds but no flowers yet.

a plan still in the bud

bandanna

bandanna

noun

breakdown

breakdown

noun

Both sides are to blame for the breakdown in communication.

parallel bars

plural noun