4-LETTER WORDS
Once you turn 18 it's your "duty" as a U.S. citizen to serve on one of these groups in court when called
jury
The Virgin Mary was betrothed to this village carpenter
Joseph
Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall"
Sat
The desirable total level for this is under 200, with the "bad" kind at under 130
Cholesterol
Litter, refuse or trash; what a bunch of...
garbage
When this cools quickly after an eruption, it can form a type of glass called obsidian
lava
After he was swallowed by a great fish, he finally obeyed God's orders to go to Nineveh
Jonah
Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God..."
Wrought
The most common cause of mild anemia is a low level of this mineral
Iron
Describes a book bound by a flexible cover
paperback
It's a song, frequently sung in church, in praise of God
hymn
Jesus gave his apostle Simon this name, from the Greek for "rock", & made him a "fisher of men"
Peter
If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card
Belated
Adding this mineral to toothpaste & mouthwashed helps prevent tooth decay
Fluoride
The stock of words used by a particular people; let's see how extensive yours is
vocabulary
The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it's also the lower front part of your leg
shin
Appropriately, the name of this guy who suffered righteously comes from a Hebrew word meaning "persecuted"
Job
On pepper boxes, it means "milled"
Cracked
A normal blood pressure reading is said to be 120/80 (systolic/this)
You can count on this device, which often uses beads to make things add up
abacus
This soft underlayer of feathers from a duck or goose is used to stuff pillows
down
This prophet's hobbies included dunking people in the river & dining on locusts & wild honey
John the Baptist
This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon
Drawn
This process, EKG for short, records electric impulses from the heart to diagnose disorders like arrhythmia
an Electrocardiogram
The natural environment of an organism, perhaps "for Humanity"
habitat