2. I have an affinity to all things chocolate!

3. Spending even an hour with my bilious cousin on Thanksgiving makes me grateful I don’t have to seem him again for another year!

4. Synonyms are cognates that usually differ only slightly in connotation.

5. Sibling fist fights are a corollary of sibling teasing!

6. We live on a cul-de-sac, so we don’t see much traffic.

7. Growing up, my father told us tales of derring-do to impress us with his strength.

8. I visited a psychic while on vacation, though I highly doubt her divination abilities; I could see her “cheat sheet” up her sleeve as she read my tarot cards!

9. Mary Poppins believed in the notion that a “spoon full of sugar” is an elixir to help the medicine go down! Apothecaries used to distribute the same elixir to everyone, regardless of symptoms.

10. Her lecture on physics was so above our heads that it sounded like little more than folderol.

11. Our studies of American history ran the gamut from Christopher Columbus to President Obama.

12. In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens demonstrates the aristocracy’s disgust at having to associate with the hoi polloi when he includes the scene where the little boy gets trampled by the Monsigneur’s carriage.

13. A picture of the Red Rocks of Utah is truly worth the thousand words it would take to even begin to describe its ineffable beauty and majesty.

14. Dr. Frankenstein’s lucubrations resulted in a monster that even he could not control.

17. Cost was an important parameter for me when choosing a college. The close-talker overstepped acceptable social parameters when he stood nose-to-nose with me upon introduction.

18. Keith Olbermann – political pundit Al Michaels – sports pundit Pundits are hired to share their thoughts on a gamut of topics on TV today, such as politics and sports.

19. He wasn’t a very good clown; the children ran screaming rather than find his pranks risible.

20. I knew my daughter had chicken pox the moment symptomatic red spots appeared on her stomach.