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You are welcome to my personal blog. I am Kapil Dev Regmi, a graduate in English Language Teaching, Education and Sociology. Now I am a student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. My area of research is lifelong learning in developing countries. This blog (ripples of my heart) is my personal inventory. It includes everything that comes in my mind. If any articles or notes in this blog impinge anyone that would only be a foible due to coincidence. Also visit my academic website (click here)

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Waiting for welter (Word practice through poem)

A zany guy longing for Zephyr
A son of yeoman for a long yore
A zealot loving xenophpbia
Wrangling in the hinterland
Without wont, without woe
Wistful for dispelling the wizardy
winnowing for the winsome day
With wispy windfall
Wheedled by the whimsical whelp in the name of man
Weltering for the favour of god
Waylayed for many times but still whinning warying
At the end of the warren whiffing the wheted part of the den
This poem needs the following vocabulary for proper understanding
1. Zany - crazy
2. zephyr - gentle breeze
3. yore -time past
4. zealot - fanatic, person with zeal
5. yeoman - middle class farmer
6. xenophobia - fear or hatred of foreigners
7. wrangle - quarrel
8. wont- custom
9. woe - deep grief
10. wizardry - magic
11. wistful - vaguely longing
12. wispy - thin
13. winsome- agreeable, gracious
14. winnow - separate good parts from bad ones
15. windfall - fallen fruit
16. wily - cunning
17. whorl - ring of leaves around steam
18. whinny - neigh like a horse
19. whimsical - capricious
20. whet - sharpen
21. whelp - young wolf
22. wheedle - cajole, deceive by flattery
23. welter - wallow
24. wean - accustom a baby not to nurse
25. walay - ambush
26. wastrel - profilgate
27. warren - tunnels in which rabbit live

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