Wednesday's Words: Fun

A friend -- Sherryl Perry -- sent me this list three years ago, and I just found it again because I was updating my "Brush Up on Your Communication Skills" workbook, and I needed a couple of silly quotations at the bottom of two pages.

Yes, I tend to keep everything, and in this case, I'm glad I did!

I hope you enjoy these -- and most depend on saying the word, not just reading it.

1. ARBITRATOR:            A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's

2. AVOIDABLE:              What a bullfighter tries to do

3. BERNADETTE:           The act of torching a mortgage

4. BURGLARIZE:            What a crook sees with

5. CONTROL:                  A short, ugly inmate

6. COUNTERFEITERS:   Workers who put together kitchen cabinets

7. ECLIPSE:                     What an English barber does for a living

8. EYEDROPPER:           A clumsy Ophthalmologist

9. HEROES:                     What a guy in a boat does

10. LEFT BANK:             What the robber did when his bag was full of money

11. MISTY:                      How golfers create divots

12. PARADOX:                Two physicians

13. PARASITES:              What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower

14. PHARMACIST:         A helper on the farm

15. POLARIZE:                What penguins see with

16. PRIMATE:                  Removing your spouse from in front of the TV

17. RELIEF:                      What trees do in the spring

18. RUBBERNECK:         What you do to relax your wife

19. SELFISH:                   What the owner of a seafood store does

20. SUDAFED:                  Brought litigation against a government official

Do you have other words to share along these lines?

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