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Activities Page 7 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Saturday, April 18, 2020 College graduate seeks Rne/s—-Believe It or Not! ways to boost english Awe others say cruel and hurtful, see less of Dear Abiby that’s the way they learned the two of them and spend DEAR ABBY: I am a English, too. more time with the other 26-year-old college gradu- She also read books in cousins. ate. I immigrated here in English with a dictionary by 2001, so English is my sec- her side. Audiobooks could DEAR ABBY: When I ond language. I have no ac- be helpful, too. An adult ed- take my dog for a walk, I cent, and I have been doing ucation class might help you always carry little doggy well in my life overall, ex- not only improve your vo- bags and pick up his busi- cept I score low on reading cabulary, but also help you A BABY ness. I live in a residential sharpen your written English and written communication skills. Please consider it. neighborhood with alleys whenI take exams. behind the houses. After I'm intelligent and a quick learner, but my vocabulary is DEAR ABBY: My my dog does his business, wbPIN 1S CALLED wine. gocomies.com 11-year-old niece sometimes I pick it up and often throw kind of limited, and it makes me feel stupid, especially calls my 7-year-old son fat, the tied-up bag in a trash can A JANE AUSTEN when I don’t score well on exams. I try to read, but I along the alley. Is this rude? which hurts him to the core. He’s very close with his Is it illegal to put things in RugrLING. PUBLISHED HER Lal feos Peeaaete IND SENSIBILITY’ INONY MOUSLYY UNDER risA LADY don’t always have the time. cousins, and we get together other people’s trash cans? My dog may make several Do you have ideas on how I can improve my vocabu- a lot. [have talked to my sis- stops along our long walks, ME AMPERSAND won sipie.com SYMBOL ter on numerous occasions lary or do better on exams? about it. and I don’t want to carry his -- SMART BUT FEELS My son knows it’s not waste with me the whole IS BASED ON “er,” STUPID OK to make fun of how trip. -- CONSIDERATE IN others look, and he doesn’t THE LATIN WorP FOR “AND” COLORADO DEAR SMART: I know understand why she says someone who, like you, im- these mean things to him. DEAR CONSIDERATE: migrated to the United States She’s old enough to know Whether it’s illegal in your in her early 20s after having better. I don’t know how to spent her first 17 years in get through to my sister that community is something ossword you should check locally be- this behavior should be rep- Russia. From there she went to Italy, where she learned to rimanded when she doesn’t cause there may be an ordi- nance that forbids it. While ACROSS speak Italian. From there she seem to care. -- FED UP IN 1 Flood the market PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED came to the U.S. WISCONSIN I can’t speak for everyone, some of the homeowners 5 Winner of the When I asked her how she DEAR FED UP: gold, briefly B/U|D|D|H|/ABMA|D|D EM T/BIS|P Your sister’s parenting skills those trash cans belong to learned English, she told me 10 Enthusiastic U|N/DIOJE|SBAN|E/EBMAIRIE|A it was by watching Ameri- appear to be questionable. would strenuously object 14 Learning method CIAITIN| IP L|RIAMBLIA|IIR to someone throwing dog can television. If there was a Because she refuses to teach her daughter consideration 15 Rustic GH A S/S/EIM/BIL)Y{L[TIN[E word she didn’t understand, doo-doo into them. That’s 16 Tearoom S|C\O/T|T RIALY. EL LDIE|R she would look it up in adic- for the feelings of others, or why my advice is, “When in 17 Trebek of tionary. 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