Weekly Vocab #1.1.5 (repost #1)

Last posted: April 26th, 2002

> From: Aidan Grey <grey@...>
>
>    Brought to you by C (for coffee), the distinction between perfective and
> habitual past tenses, and intensive adjectives.
>
>    1. coffee / bitter drink / culturally distinctive drink
>        I used to drink coffee.
>
>    2. tea / herbal tea
>         I drank the tea in one gulp.
>
>    3. steep / brew
>        She used to steep the tea for 10 minutes, but she steeped this cup
> for only 7 minutes.
>
>    4. pastry / biscuits / cookies
>        She had pastry with her coffee once.
>        She had pastry with her coffee every day.
>
>    5. milk
>        She doesn't take milk in her tea.
>
>    6. bitter
>        The coffee was very bitter today.
>        The coffee was bitter every day.
>
>    7. sweet
>        He likes his tea too strong and too sweet for us.
>
>    8. wired / the feeling obtained after drinking 43 cups of coffee
>        That guy is wired! He drinks too much coffee.
>
>    9. mellow / calm / soothing (of music)
>         The music they play is too mellow for my taste.
>
>    10. street vendor / coffee house / tea bar / the culturally appropriate
> place to buy a cup of tea or coffee
>         That street vendor always had the best tea, but then his wife left him.
>
>    (note: in #10, it's a habitual past followed by a perfective)
>
>    [p.s. In honor of my becoming the manager of the grad student coffee
> house on campus. Yay!]
>
>    Aidan
Bonus Vocab from WordNet:
This is randomly selected automatically, so in case it offends you
or you disagree, please either ignore or be inspired to make up
different words and/or phrases:

  - externalization, n.
    embodying in an outward form

  - spring-clean, v.
    thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year; "she started
    spring-cleaning on April 1"

Fiant verba!

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