Thanksgiving

Dean S.
Thankgiving is an important holiday in the United States. There are many words associated with Thanksgiving.
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  1. card
    thin cardboard, usually rectangular
  2. celebrate
    have a festivity
  3. cranberry sauce
    sauce made of cranberries and sugar
  4. dressing
    a cloth covering for a wound or sore
  5. family
    a group of people related to one another
  6. fasting
    abstaining from food
  7. foliage
    the collective amount of leaves of one or more plants
  8. freedom
    the power to act, speak, or think without being controlled
  9. friend
    a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
  10. garland
    a circular band of flowers or other foliage
  11. grateful
    feeling or showing thankfulness
  12. ham
    meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
  13. harvest
    the gathering of a ripened crop
  14. Indian
    of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
  15. pilgrim
    someone who journeys in foreign lands
  16. Plymouth
    a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
  17. potato
    an edible tuber native to South America
  18. prayer
    reverent petition to a deity
  19. pumpkin pie
    pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
  20. stuffing
    padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
  21. sweet potato
    pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
  22. thanksgiving
    a short prayer of thanks before a meal
  23. tradition
    a specific practice of long standing
  24. turkey
    large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail
  25. worship
    the activity of cherishing as divine
Created on Thu Nov 13 13:00:53 EST 2008

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