Vintage Vocabulary
The vocabulary word tactile deals with this one of the five senses.
What is touch?
Bella Swan is the heroine of this vampire-n-werewolf saga that peaked in popularity when Mr. Clements was in high school.
What is Twilight?
What is Maine?
The bee type of this bird is the world's smallest bird species.
What is hummingbird?
This star of Jumanji and Moana was given the name "The Rock" during his time as a professional wrestler.
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
What are USC and Claremont Graduate University?
This vocabulary word means "a brief illustrative story about a person's life," but it is often confused with the medicine a person takes to recover from poison.
What is anecdote?
This largest lizard on Earth shares the second part of its name with a mythical creature that is part of the Chinese zodiac.
What is the Komodo dragon?
This California city is the closest place you can swim to from Alcatraz Island, although I wouldn't recommend trying it.
What is San Francisco?
Halley's this is a celestial body that passes near the Earth every 76 years.
What is Comet?
This singer's current Romantic Tour has featured the songs "Treasure" and "I Just Might" at nearly every show.
Who is Bruno Mars?
This is the ASB class that Mr. Clements advises at TC.
What is PLUS?
The word southpaw means that a person (usually an athlete) is this.
What is left-handed?
Satoshi Nakamoto is the invented name of the founder of this currency, which originally traded for one cent.
What is bitcoin?
What is Madagascar?
This molecule, formula C12H22O11, is commonly found in kitchens and pantries and used in many baking recipes.
What is sugar?
This nemesis of Perry the Platypus shares his first name with a brand of ketchup.
Who is (Heinz) Doofenschmirtz?
This is the month of Mr. Clements's birthday.
What is October (28)?
If something is inexorable, it can't be this.
What is slowed or stopped?
This legendary British king lived at Camelot with the Knights of the Round Table.
Who is King Arthur?
These are the two Asian countries that contain the Gobi Desert.
What are China and Mongolia?
I hope this clue ignites your memory: of the three major types of rock, this is the kind that is formed when lava cools.
What is igneous?
This out-of-this-world element is Superman's only physical weakness.
What is Kryptonite?
This is the celebrity Mr. Clements dressed up as (and shaved his face for!) during Homecoming week.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
A Luddite is a person who is opposed to this, sometimes violently.
What is technology?
Which Germanic folklore character brings children good dreams?
Who is The Sandman?
An enclave country is a nation completely surrounded by the territory of one other country; there are three of them in the world - you only have to name one.
Vatican City, San Marino (surrounded by Italy), Lesotho (surrounded by South Africa)
This species, the world's tallest grass, can grow up to 3 feet in a single day.
What is bamboo?
I'm going to give you a clue you can't refuse: this 1972 mafia movie was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three of them, including Best Picture.
What is The Godfather?
Mr. Clements lived in this city between the ages of 2 and 16.
What is Canyon Lake?