Vocabulary
This word starts with the letter 'a' and it means to reduce pain or suffering. It has four syllables. For example: I had a headache, so I took some aspirin to ___ the pain.
What is 'alleviate?'
This is the author of the short story "The Gift of the Magi." It was a story about how a young couple sacrificed their most prized possessions to be able to afford a Christmas gift.
Who is O. Henry?
This ocean is located between the Southern Ocean, Asia and Australia and the Western Hemisphere. It
covers about one-third of the earth's surface, it covers 28% of the Earth.
Its deepest point is the Challenger Deep within Mariana Trench near Japan. Its name means 'peace.'
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the Director of the school. He poses for photos and hands out academic and sport awards.
Who is Dr. Wachit?
This musical instrument has 6 strings. Kru Poi and Kru Ex know how to play it. So does Eric Clapton.
What is a guitar?
What are Funyuns?
What is her hair?
This continent contains the world's Southern most city (Puentas Arenas).
It also contains the world's largest river system (The Amazon).
What is South America?
This is the nickname for the room where students eat lunch. It's also were students go for a snack twice a day. If you are lucky, you can sometimes avoid this room and get a meal from outside, like from Pizza Hut.
What is "Food for Thought?"
This is a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s. It is characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Its a mixture of black rhythm & blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.
What is rock and roll?
This can be a noun or a verb. As a verb it means to move or twist in a spiral action. As a noun, it is a kitchen instrument used to open bottles of wine that have a cork stuck in them.
What is (a) corkscrew?
This is what was used to kill one of the characters in the short story, "The Lottery."
What are stones, rocks, or pebbles?
This is a tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are flooded at high tide. They typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets.
What are mangroves?
This room has a funny smell sometimes. It has a projector and it's used by the math department.
What is the Math Lab?
This traditional Thai musical instrument called the Ranad, is similar to this musical instrument. It's Typically, a person will play with one mallet in each hand, but it's common for players to hold two mallets in each hand to make chords. Players of this instrument can use a single strike, or make a roll by quickly alternating left and right mallets
What is a xylophone?
This is a type of machine that can distribute snacks. You put coins into a slot and your snack comes out. Be careful, though! Your snack can get stuck on the spirals.
What is a vending machine?
This is the magazine that first published the short story, "The Lottery" in 1948. It has the same name as a famous city in the USA.
What is the New Yorker?
This continent contains the world's longest river (The Nile).
It also contains the world's largest desert (The Sahahra).
It contains more countries than any other continent.
Most of the world's gold and diamonds come from this continent.
What is Africa?
If the pm 2.5 pollution count is over 150, this is what happens to the windows in Panyarat High School.
What is, "they are closed."
This type of popular music has swept across Asia and North America. Its distinguishing features are having a minimum of 4 members. The singers roles are leader, vocalist, rapper, dancer, and the prettiest. Unfortunately, there have been suicides due to the stress of being in this kind of band.
What is KPOP?
This word means to provide (something) with a component or accessory not fitted during manufacture. So for example, a taxi might have been built in 2000, but new laws require it to have a safety feature. That safety feature can be added to the old taxi instead of building a new taxi.
What is retrofit or retrofitting?
In this novel by Mitch Albom, the main character gets killed by a falling amusement park ride. Throughout the rest of the story, while he is in Heaven, he meets different people in his life and learns lessons from them.
What is the novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven?"
These are the intersecting lines which are drawn on maps and globes. They are comprised of both the latitude and longitude lines.
What are geographic grids?
This is the strongest teacher to ever work at Panyarat High School. His strength is matched by his good looks and intelligence. He has a brilliant smile, a quick wit, but is known to be a little bit lazy.
Who is Kru Jim Piper?
Although she is now over 60 years old, this pop singer is known as "The Material Girl."
Who is Madonna?