Rhymes for PUPILS

• the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

• fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

• native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

• a pair who associate with one another

• a pair of people who live together

• a small indefinite number

• two items of the same kind

• (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines

• bring two objects, ideas, or people together

• link together

• form a pair or pairs

• engage in sexual intercourse

• (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

• a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn

• material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing

• a short U-shaped wire nail

• paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together

• necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities

• secure or fasten with a staple or staples

• a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base

• a set of three similar things considered as a unit

• a quantity that is three times as great as another

• having three units or components or elements

• three times as great or many

• increase threefold

• hit a three-base hit

• the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

• a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)

• a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control

• an impracticable and illusory idea

• a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic

• form, produce, or emit bubbles

• flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

• rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles

• cause to form bubbles

• expel gas from the stomach

• badminton played with two players on each side

• tennis played with two players on each side

• a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)

• the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

• a condition of great disorder

• a building where animals are butchered

• a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

• a large distance

• a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

• a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

• an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

• a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

• a footrace extending one mile

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• official routes of communication

• motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

• money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts

• suitable for use as food

• any substance that can be used as food

• the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament

• an examination administered at the end of an academic term

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• conclusive in a process or progression

• not to be altered or undone

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle

• an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

• a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

• original and of a kind not seen before

• pleasantly new or different

• the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

• cry or whine with snuffling

• inhale audibly through the nose

• a place of worship that has its own altar

• a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

• someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

• deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

• deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

• a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached

• any slight depression in a surface

• a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin

• mark with, or as if with, dimples

• produce dimples while smiling

• a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope

• a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam

• the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

• succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

• to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match

• wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

• any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

• derived from or composed of matter

• directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

• having material or physical form or substance

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• things needed for doing or making something

• a person judged suitable for admission or employment

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

• concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

• a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones

• a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

• a color between red and blue

• (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status

• (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes

• of a color intermediate between red and blue

• excessively elaborate or showily expressed

• belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

• become purple

• color purple

• a small wave on the surface of a liquid

• (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

• the basic unit of money in Tajikistan

• the basic unit of money in Russia

• a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

• items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

• all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

• take a sample of

• a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery

• a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

• place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

• the flat area on either side of the forehead

• an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes

• (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

• fall down, as if collapsing

• cause to topple or tumble by pushing

• the sound of heavy treading or stomping

• tread or stomp heavily or roughly

• injure by trampling or as if by trampling

• walk on and flatten

• a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)

• walk leisurely

• slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish

• a mock scepter carried by a court jester

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• the sacred writings of the Christian religions

• a book regarded as authoritative in its field

• the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

• flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

• a telegram sent abroad

• a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

• a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire

• a nautical unit of depth

• television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

• a television system that transmits over cables

• send cables, wires, or telegrams

• fasten with a cable

• fall apart

• break or fall apart into fragments

• fall into decay or ruin

• a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together

• dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

• play in or as if in water, as of small children

• work with in an amateurish manner

• bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water