L21 Pent In Flashcards
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PENT IN // a thick pen drawn around something. Not restrained as such, just sort of… stuck.
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TRAPPED // bear in the woods, caught in a tree trap, surrounded by hunters, pent in
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SOLID // mummified remains, ancient power pent in by 1000s year of solidification. Mummies are solid as stone.
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COUNTRY // commodities, said historical Chinese rulers, are not to be traded abroad. Jade pent in own country.
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ROUND // employee took regular tea breaks. Manager builds round desk to pent her in.
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CAUSE // st bernard dog, pent up in a cage. The obvious cause of his biting frenzy.
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SMOKE // no smoke without fire. Fire causes smoke. Fireman thank the skies for smoke signs to help them.
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PARK // tiny city park as the beginning of a marathon. Everyone was pent in, climbing fences to escape. (They should have just started running!)
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PICTURE // a special camera takes pictures which banish the subject ever-after. Winter pictures pent up the whole season in a frame.
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RETURN // pictograph of shameful return journey, a cackling laughing mouth in the middle
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EXTENSIVE // cliff + first dot of ‘house’. A house chiseled out from a cliff. Everything about this ambitious project was extensive. You can see the precarious overhang where materials were extended.
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STORE // oracle stands at store door, advising what should be kept. Mushrooms, she says, as a shortage is near. (Oh, and store is in a cave.)
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WAREHOUSE // the flintstones’ car warehouse, sold in flatpack bamboo and stone from a cave for warehouse low prices.
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TROUSERS // ultimate nightmare - out without trousers, and even clothing warehouse is out of stock. oh noooo.
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BED // treehouse, an ideal bed. cave camp, yes. Treehouse inside a massive cave?? 4 poster bed??? Now you’re talking.
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HAMLET // hermit called his settlement a hamlet when actually it was a cave with a mound of soil inside it.
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HEMP // in esher, a cave in the woods has hemp growing in it. The teens met there to smoke this ‘weed’, not knowing it was actually a herbal remedy.
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HEART // extremely common. Ventricles.
» 心 beneath or to the right, is a physical heart.
» 惯 (left) emotional mind state
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FORGET // no act is more forgetful than forgetting one’s own heart beat. It causes everything to perish.
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ENDURE // the infamous samurai act, a blade through one’s own heart. Agonizingly painful, but less to endure than shame.
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GENERAL (adj) // Horns + Mouth + Heart. All the contents of a MacDonald’s big mac. When they say ‘beef’, it’s a general term.
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ATTITUDE // at first calm on Jeremy Kyle, the mother’s heart beat became overly fast. Overly fast heart rates cause massive attitude changes, and this lady went nuts.
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ASPIRATION // bullet shooting towards soldier’s chest, his aspirations of life flash before him. But as it hits his heart, all he aspires to is an intact heart.
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CONSIDER // dr house’s whiteboard. “Brain… heart… discuss?” But whilst the interns are considering, dr house has gone off and tested the patient for both.