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Definition:
b) a child whose parents are dead
German translation:
orphan = das Waisenkind
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GOOGLE INDEX
orphan: approximately 13,000,000 Google hits
Sample text:
Haiti quake creates thousands of new ORPHANS
(Yahoo! News Headline)
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Little Orphan Annie's come to my house to stay,
To wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away.
To shoo the chickens from the porch and dust the hearth and sweep,
and make the fire and bake the bread to earn her board and keep.
- from the poem "Little Orphan Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley
Did you know?
orphan
noun
- a child whose parents are dead
verb
- to make someone an orphan
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray (1894–1968). It first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's popular 1885 poem "Little Orphan Annie."
In the comic's storyline, Annie is an orphan whose only friends are her doll Emily Marie and her dog Sandy. Her unique physical features are a mop of red, curly hair, a red dress and vacant circles for eyes. Her catch phrases are "Gee whiskers" and "Leapin' lizards!" Annie attributed her lasting youthfulness to the fact that she was born on Leap Day, February 29, and so only aged one year in appearance for every four years that passed.
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"Bob was an orphan at a very early age, but luckily got adopted by a wonderful family."
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Today's Learning Tip (12):
USE FEELINGS
How do professional actors learn their lines? They practice their material in complete sentences and they speak them out loud with feeling. We often remember things when feelings are involved - place the new word an emotional sentence, and say it several times with PASSION.
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