Tom and his wife Carol were shovelling snow in the garden.
Last night's blizzard had brought heavy snow and the garden turned into a white wonderland. The couple knew the blizzard was looming the previous day, but they apparently didn't think it could be such an appalling blizzard.
Tom was a gardening buff and was really adept at it. He had the knack of keeping a garden charming and even kept a shack in his backyard to facilitate the gardening. He kept adopting new approaches. In the summer, his lush garden was full of colourful blooms or blossoms, trimmed shrubs, and the appealing grass. A ridiculous thought just flashed into Tom's mind, and he found himself imagining a buffallo and a giraffe in his garden. Tom loved animals so much and was baffled by those who were trying to kill animals in the wild with a rifle.
Although Tom had tried to adapt it, he hated the 'doom and gloom' a harsh winter could bring along, especially when things in a sluggish economy were not going so well as in boom years.
'Hey, a lizard,' squealed Carol, who flushed and was trying to muffle her voice.
'What? How could there be a lizard in our garden?' Tom yelled back.
It was a bizarre lizard that was trying to escape but was too weak to move - the poor lizard suffered so much. While Tom was trying to bring the lizard to somewhere warmer, Carol shrieked again. She just saw a squirrel scurrying into the shrubs. Tom shrugged, smirked and said to Carol, 'It must be the squirrel I used to see, and I even groomed its shaggy tail and touched its saggy eyelids.'
Tom and Carol felt cold and shivery in the snow-covered garden, and decided to call it a day and go to the plaza for a buffet dinner - should it be some pizza, waffle, muffins, snacks, fresh fruits, or the pink flesh of salmon. Tom took off the dirty apron, shaved and even took a shower before slipping into his new apparel.
Written by Expector. Did you notice the following confusing words?
lizard - blizzard - bizarre
groom - gloom - bloom - blossom - loom - boom - doom
buff - buffalo - buffet - suffer - muffin - giraffe - waffle - baffle - muffle - rifle
flash - fresh - flesh - flush - lush
shrub - shrug - shaggy - saggy - sluggish
adept - adapt - adopt
Knack - snack - shack - shave - shovel - shivery
squeal - squirrel - shriek - smirk
apparel - apparently - appalling - appealing - apron
pizza - plaza
Comments
@Elena
Thanks for the comment. You could try to write one - it can be so fun!
Thanks Expector, a very useful and interesting blog! Have a lovely day.
@Onee
Thanks for reading and commenting on blog. It may be a little difficult for some of the members to read this blog since it's full of confusing words that are not used so often. I don't think it's so hard for you to get it, though.
Oops! It should be a typo - I just corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out. In fact, I've read this blog a couple of times - it's not that I didn't proofread it. I still failed to spot the typo, though.
Wow.....so many new words for me. That's why so sorry for just reading, Expector...I should fully understand when reading blogs. So, it takes time to read and look into dictionary.hehe...
But, what is the meaning of "appraoches" here? Isn't typo or is there another meaning?
Thanks, dear Expector. This is a precious lesson. I must see in detail, again.
@Luci
Good idea, though. In fact, I've been trying to find my niche - you never know!
Thanks.
Many thanks to Mishaikh, beethoven, Anah, and seteareh!
I'm so glad you find it useful. Some members here may say 'enough is enough', though. Yes, it may be a little hard for them to read something like this.
It works for me and I hope other members will agree it's such an effective way to learn all the confusing words. That's why I created the blog challenge and has written 5 blogs like this.
I really enjoyed reading the story and most important thing is that I learned a new idiom today.
So amazingly used lots of confusing and similar looking words.
Thanks for the share Sir!
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