"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
Nero
Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
August
The founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
Bert and Ernie
Two Muppet characters who are major characters on the popular U.S. children's television show Sesame Street.
stanza
In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or different indentation.
The Bucket List
A 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men (portrayed by Nicholson and Freeman) on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket".
-ant : person
e.g. : attandant, protestant
peri- :around
e.g. : perimeter
-scope : point of view
e.g.: telescope parascope
oct- :eight
e.g.: octopus, october
pro- : in favor of
e.g. : provide, process
Vocabulary
1.carnal (adjective)
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
worldly or earthly; temporal
of or relating to the body or flesh
2.sardonic (adjective)
Scornfully mocking or cynical.
e.g.: He distances himself from people with his nasty, sardonic laughter.
Disdainfully or ironically humorous.
3.philander (noun)
A lover.
A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander aka Didelphis philander.
An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis aka Perameles lagotis.
5.nostril (noun)
Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
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