Now that we’re into March, the flu season should be wrapping up -- thank goodness! If you got sick this season, I hope you went in for a doctor visit to figure out what was ailing you. Maybe you were looking a little pale and coughing; maybe you felt tired and weak; maybe you were racked with pain and felt like you were going to die. Whatever your symptoms, I hope you’re feeling better now.
Wishing you and yours a healthy rest of the year!
flu -- a specific variety of influenza, usually named for its point of dissemination or its animal vector: Hong Kong flu; swine flu.
flue -- a passage or duct for smoke in a chimney.
sick -- afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
sic -- to attack (used especially in commanding a doc): Sic ‘em!
sic -- so; thus; usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: He signed his name as e. e. cummings (sic).
ail -- to be unwell; feel pain; be ill: He’s been ailing for some time.
ale -- a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer, containing about 6 percent alcohol by volume.
pale -- lacking intensity of color; colorless or whitish: a pale complexion.
pail -- bucket.
tire -- to have the strength reduced or exhausted, as by labor or exertion; become fatigued; be sleepy.
tire -- a ring or band of rubber, either solid or hollow and inflated, or of metal, placed over the rim of a wheel to provide traction, resistance to wear, or other desirable properties.
weak -- not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
week -- a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
rack -- to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain.
wrack -- damage or destruction: wrack and ruin. Also, seaweed or other vegetation cast on the shore.
pain -- physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
pane -- one of the divisions of a window or the like, consisting of a single plate of glass in a frame.
die -- to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
dye -- a coloring material or matter.
All definitions were obtained from www.dictionary.com.
