FIRST NAME VERBS
To honor, as with one's presence
grace
Similar to mince, it means to chop food into small cubes
dice
It can mean a new colony, or a business agreement negotiated to resolve a dispute
a settlement
This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade"
Huckleberry Finn
Before it can become this fabric, the raw material must be tanned.
Leather
To put on clothes
don
Culinary words for adding a last bit of color or flavor (mmm... parsley) include finish & this -ish verb
garnish
For decades consumers have complained about this persistence in the diet soda drinking experience
an aftertaste
In a J.M. Barrie play, she & her brothers Michael & John get sprinkled with fairy dust & fly off into the night
Wendy
She is most famous for her best-selling book on etiquette, but she also wrote five novels between 1904 and 1910.
Emily Post
To pry open
jimmy
To pané a food is to coat it in these
bread crumbs
Oscar Wilde quipped that he could resist anything but this
temptation
This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book
Tigger
This Chinese sauce is basically made from applesauce and apricot jam. There’s no fowl in it at all.
Duck sauce
To kid around
josh
To soak meat for several hours in a mix of oil, acid & flavorings--in the fridge, never at room temp
marinate
A woman's undergarment often trimmed with ruffles or lace
a petticoat
He illustrated his own "Where the Wild Things Are" as well as several of the "Little Bear" books for kids
Maurice Sendak
The Kennedy School of Government on JFK Street is part of this university.
Harvard
To give, like a wish
grant
To cook or stew gently just below the boiling point
simmer
The author of the text of an opera
the librettist
In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds
a bat
“Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? When I’m …”
Sixty-four