Short words are easy to quote, remember, spell and type. Hence I am trying to introduce more and more short words here, though sometimes, they may turnout to be rare. After all, what is there in rarity? If people start using them, they become popular. Somebody has to bell the cat.
CHOICE BOX
keck
keek
kick
kink
kirk
konk
kook
kyak
kayak
kiosk
knack
knock
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371. The eastern border of Utah has a KINK in it.
372. The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the KIRK, below the hill,
Below the light-house top. [S.T. Coleridge in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner']
373.KONKis a rock-band album released in 2008.
374. Before marriage, he appeared to be an intelligent person, but turned out to be a KOOK soon after.
375. I do not like to see the Church and Synagogue kissing and congeeing in awkward postures of an affected civility. If they are converted, why do they not come over to us altogether? Why keep up a form of separation, when the life of it is fled? If they can sit with us at table, why do they keck at our cookery? I do not understand these half convertites. Jews christianizing--Christians judaizing--puzzle me. [Charles Lamb in his essay 'Imperfect Sympathies'].
376. When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
At gaming, swearing; or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in't;--
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven [Shakespeare's Hamlet about his villainous Uncle].
377. Airlines do not take much interest in providing fully accessible kiosks to travellers with disabilities.
378. "I have departed from the house of the scholars, and the door have I also slammed behind me. Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got the knack of investigating, as the knack of nut-cracking. [Friedrich Nietzsche in 'Thus Spake Zarathushtra'].
379. In Sahara desert, we cannot have a thrilling kyak adventure.
380. "And now let's take another keek at the red-coats," says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood. [R.L. Stevenson in his 'Talk With Alan In The Wood Of Lettermore'].
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