Connections Answers
Saturday, September 27, 2025
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LOVING
These words describe a person's good, gentle, and caring personality, especially how they show affection or kindness to others.
Individual words:
•KIND: Someone who is kind is friendly, generous, and thinks about other people's feelings. They are nice and helpful.
•SWEET: A sweet person is very pleasant, gentle, and lovable. They often have a charming and agreeable personality that others enjoy.
•TENDER: Tender describes someone who is gentle, soft, and caring, often in a loving or sympathetic way. They show empathy and care.
•WARM: A warm person is friendly, welcoming, and shows affection easily. They make others feel comfortable, happy, and accepted, like a warm hug.
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APPENDAGES
These are all body parts that extend from an animal's or human's main body, used for moving, flying, or swimming.
Individual words:
•ARM: A human body part from the shoulder to the hand. We use our arms to lift, carry, and wave. You also have two arms.
•FIN: A flat part on a fish's body, or other water animals like sharks. Fish use their fins to swim and steer in water.
•FLIPPER: A wide, flat limb on animals like seals, sea turtles, or penguins. They use flippers to swim fast in the ocean.
•WING: A body part that birds, bats, and insects have. They use their wings to fly through the air.
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POPCORN-MAKING METHODS
These words describe different ways or devices people use to make popcorn, a popular snack in the US.
Individual words:
•KETTLE: Some special popcorn machines have a 'kettle' inside. It's a heated pot where corn kernels pop with oil, often making cinema-style popcorn for large groups.
•MICROWAVE: This means using a microwave oven. You put a special bag of corn kernels inside, and the microwave heats it to make popcorn quickly at home.
•POPPER: A 'popper' is a machine made only for making popcorn. There are different kinds, like air poppers that use hot air or oil poppers for home use.
•STOVETOP: This method uses a pot on your kitchen stove. You add oil and corn kernels to the pot, cover it, and heat it until the kernels pop.
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SQUANDER, WITH “AWAY”
These words are all verbs that mean to waste time, money, or opportunity when you add the word “away” after them. For example, “fritter away” means to waste slowly.
Individual words:
•FIDDLE: To waste time or money on small, unimportant things instead of doing something useful. Like playing around instead of working seriously.
•FRITTER: To slowly waste money, time, or energy on things that are not important or useful, little by little.
•THROW: To waste something valuable, like money or a good chance, often carelessly, so you lose it forever.
•TRIFLE: To waste time or money on things that are not serious or important, treating them as if they don't matter much.