Vocabulary University® - Weddings, Love and Celebration Puzzle & Words

Vocabulary University® - Weddings, Love and Affection Puzzle and Words

"Hi, I'm Cinny Nym, Dean of Faculty at Vocabulary University.

We have created a wedding word puzzle for you to solve. You have permission to copy this page for either your classroom or home.

"In addition, we offer below an "Alphalary" (A-to-Z word) list of 290 Wedding and Love/Celebration words. If you would like another list of words related to other topics for celebrations/festivals/carnivals just email your request to New Words List. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable."

TRIVIA ABOUT WEDDINGS and ROMANCE:

Do you know these facts about Kisses?
Do you know about Wedding Superstitions?
Can you add to this list of popularHEART SONGS?
Do you know what to give every year as an Anniversary Remembrance?
What is your Birthstone?

Do you know this information about Kisses? (adapted from Ruth McConnell, author of The Kissing Cure)
1. A person burns 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
2. Human brains have special neurons to help couples find each other's lips in the dark.
3. As many as 278 colonies of bacteria are exchanged during a kiss.
4. An average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
5. The scientific name for kissing is osculation.
6. A man who kisses his lady goodbye when he leaves for work every morning averages a higher income than a man who doesn't.
7. Ninety percent of people worldwide kiss on the lips according to anthropologists.
8. Fifty percent of people have kissed before they turned 14.
9. Kissing can be a beauty treatment. Scientific tests show that good kissing helps reduce dermatitis, blemishes and skin rashes.
10. Kissing makes your hair glow and your hair shine.

Do you know about Wedding Superstitions?
1 - The bride ensures good luck if she wears "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."
2 - It could be "bad luck" for a bride and groom to see each other the day of the wedding.
3 - Rice may be a symbol for a wish of children, good fortune and a long life.
4 - When the bride tosses her bouquet to unmarried women, the person who catches it will be the next one to marry.
5 - When the bride tosses her garter to the unmarried men, the one who catches it will be the next one to marry.

Rootonym® Weddings, Love and Affection Puzzle

The answers are upside down inside the puzzle.

WEDDING, LOVE and CELEBRATION WORDS (290 word Alphalary™)
Please email Jan Cook here with your additions.

A: ability, acceptance, achievement, admiration, adoration, adore, affection, affectionate, affinity, agreement, aisle, alliance, anniversary, announcements, altar, amusing, appreciation, ardor, artistic, attachment, attendance, attendant, attentive, attraction, awe
B: bachelor, banns, beloved, best man, Bible, bills, blessing, bond, bonus, bouquet, boutonniere, bow, bride, budget,
C: capable, care-giver, caring, celebration, ceremony, chapel, character, charmer, cherish, church, civil, clergy, clever, congratulations, commitment, common-law, companion, companionship, compassion, compassionate, consent, cordial, corsage, couple, courtship, cozy, customary,
D: dating, dazzle, dear, decision, declaration, dedication, delightful, dependable, devoted, devotion, dine, doer, dowry, drive
E: emotion, emulate, endear, endearment, endogamy, engagement, expectation, experience
F: family, fascinate, favor, favorite, fellowship, fiancé, fiancée, flowers, fond of, forever, friendship, friends
G: gala, gathering, gentle, genuine, get-away, gifts, giving, grin, groom
H: happiness, heart, helper, hideaway, hobbies, honest, honey, honeymoon, honor, hope, hug, humor, husband
I: idiosyncrasy, idolize, inclination, institution, integrity, intelligence, invitations
J: jocular, joking, joy, joyful
K: karma, kidding, kindness, kiss
L: lace, laughter, legacy, legality, lesson, license, limousine, lives, logical, long-term, love, loyalty
M: maid of honor, marriage, march, marry, mate, matrimony, matron of honor, memories, monogamy, mostly, music
N: necessary, nerves, no nonsense, nonreligious, notion
O: objectivity, obligation, observe, official, open, overt
P: partner, passionate, paternal, permanent, photographs, physical, precious, presents, prize, protection
Q: queasy, query, quick, quirk
R: readings, reasonable, reasoning, reception, recognition, regard, relationship, relatives, religious, remembrance, reminiscent, respect, responsibility, responsible, revere, rice, ring, rite, role model, romantic
S: sacrament, safety, save-the-date, security, service, sharing, show, shower, sober, solemn, soiree, special, spinster, sports, sweet, sweetheart, symbolize, sympathetic, simpatico,
T: teach, tender, tenderness, together, token, traditional, travel, truelove, tuxedo
U: understanding, unique, union, unite, unusual, usher, utmost
V: variety, veil, venue, vision, vows
W: warmth, wedding bands, white, wife, willingness, wisdom, wise, witness, wonderful, worker, worship
X: xxxx (kisses)
Y: yearning, youthful
Z: zeal, zestful

A great school or family exercise would be to write a story composed from words from the list above! Write a second one for extra credit!

TRIVIA ABOUT WEDDINGS and ROMANCE:

Can you add to this list of popular HEART SONGS?
(list given to vocabulary.com by given to vocabulary.com by T.A from Sunland, CA)
1-A Dream is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Disney
2-Blame It On Your Heart - Patty Loveless
3-Does Your Heart Beat For Me - Patsy Cline
4-Don't Break the Heart That Loves You - Connie Francis
5-Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John
6-Every Beat of My Heart - Gladys Knight & The Pips
7-Follow My Heart - REO Speedwagon
8-Good Hearted Woman - Willie Nelson
9-Give My Heart to You - Billy Ray Cyrus
10-Heart - Reba McEntire
11-Heart's Desire - Manhattan Transfer
12-Heart and Soul - Jan and Dean
13-Heart and Soul - The Cleftones
14-Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds
15-Heart of Mine - Bob Dylan
16-Heart of Mine - Boz Skaggs
17-Heartlight - Neil Diamond
18-Hearts Aren't Made to Break - Lee Greenwood
19-Home Is Where The Heart Is - Peter, Paul and Mary
20-Home Is Where The Heart Is - Ronnie Gilbert
21-Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
22-I Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks - Barry Manilow
23-I Have One Hand, One Heart - Barbra Streisand
24-I Sold My Heart To the Junkman - Bette Midler
25-If My Heart Had Wings - Faith Hill
26-If You've Got A Heart - Chad and Jeremy
27-Keeper of My Heart - Indigo Girls
28-Let's Call A Heart a Heart - Billie Holiday
28-Let Me Into Your Heart - Mary Chapin Carpenter
30-Look Me In The Heart - Tina Turner
31-Longing In Their Hearts - Bonnie Raitt
32-Matters of the Heart - Tracy Chapman
33-My Heart Has A Mind of Its Own - Reba McEntire
34-My Heart Skips A Beat - Buck Owen
35-My Heart Stood Still - Burl Ives
36-My Heart Won't Wander Very Far From You - George Strait
37-One Hand, One Heart - Debbie Gibson
38-One Honest Heart - Reba McEntire
39-Only In Your Heart - America
40-Open Season On My Heart - Tim McGraw
41-Our Hearts Are Holding Hands - Loretta Lynn
42-Piece of My Heart - Janis Ian
43-Runnin' Away With My Heart - Lonestar
44-Seasons of My Heart - Johnny Cash
45-Seasons of The Heart - John Denver
46-State of the Heart - Peter, Paul and Mary
47-Take the Keys to My Heart - Garth Brooks
48-Their Hearts Were Full of Spring - The Beach Boys
49-Thinkin' With My Heart Again - Lee Ann Womack
50-Till The Heart Caves In - k.d. lang
51-When My Heart Finds Christmas - Harry Connick, Jr.
52-Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks
53-You Can't Make A Heart Love Somebody - George Strait

Do you know these suggestions for Keepsakes and gifts for WEDDINGS & Anniversaries? (Listed by length of relationship in years.) Ordinal numbers (1-35) = Cardinal numbers (First, second etc.)
1. gold jewelry, clocks and watches; paper, plastics, furniture
2. garnet (all colors), china; cotton
3. pearls, crystal and glass; leather or leather-like
4. blue topaz, electrical appliances; linen, silk or synthetic silk, rayon, nylon
5. sapphires (all colors), silverware; wood and decorative home accents
6. amethyst, wood; iron
7. onyx, desk sets; copper, brass, wool
8. tourmaline (all colors), linens and lace; bronze, electrical appliance
9. lapis, leather; pottery, china, glass or crystal
10. diamond jewelry and watches; aluminum, tin
11. turquoise, fashion jewelry and accessories; steel
12. jade, pearl or colored gems; linen, nylon, silk
13. citrine, textiles or furs; lace
14. opal, gold watches and jewelry; agate, ivory
15. ruby, watches; crystal, glass
16. peridot, silver holloware
17. watches, furniture
18. cat's eye, porcelain
19. aquamarine, bronze
20. emerald, platinum watches and jewelry; china, occasional furniture
21. iolite
22. spinel (all colors)
23. imperial topaz (all colors)
24. tanzanite
25. silver jubilee; silver
30. pearl jubilee, diamond watches and jewelry; personal gifts
35. emerald, jade; coral, jade
40. ruby; garnets
45. sapphire; tourmaline
50. golden jubilee; gold
55. alexandrite, emerald; turquoise
60. diamond jubilee; diamonds and diamond-like stones, gold

Monthly Birthstone: Jewelers often suggest these stones as remembrances for wedding celebrations.
January - garnet
February - amethyst
March - aquamarine
April - diamond
May - emerald
June - pearl, alexandrite
July - ruby
August - peridot
September - sapphire
October - opal, tourmaline
November - topaz
December - turquoise, zircon, tanzanite

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