{"id":662,"date":"2011-05-30T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-108-weary-vs-wary\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:04","slug":"day-108-weary-vs-wary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-108-weary-vs-wary\/","title":{"rendered":"day 108: weary vs wary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The other day as I was reading aloud to my sons out of a book about Clara Barton, I came across a sentence that i read, then re-read, then re-read again. It was about Clara Barton, the founder of the US Red Cross during the Civil War, becoming weary on the battle front. I was sure that the author had misused the word weary&#8211;and really needed wary. It was then and there that I decided that the concept of weary and wary warranted its own &#8220;Tricky Trick to Help It Stick&#8221;!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Weary is a word that means tired or overwhelmed from something, such as too much work, no rest, difficult circumstances, etc.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Wary is a word that means to be paranoid or suspicious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Both words are adjectives, meaning they describe nouns (or sometimes pronouns, in the case of predicate adjectives: I am weary.).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">So, what can we use for a Tricky Trick?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Well, I will propose one that has worked for me since my Clara Barton encounter&#8211;see if it helps you as well:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">1. The day was dreary, so she grew weary&#8211;just remember that the spellings are the same&#8211;dreary and weary (dreary weather makes you tired or weary!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">2. The&nbsp; salesman was scary, so the buyers were wary&#8211;just remember that the spellings are the same&#8211;scary and wary (a scary saleperson makes you wary or suspicious\/paranoid).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Now, I hope you don&#8217;t get weary in your grammar studies&#8211;or wary when you write a sentence using weary\/wary!&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day as I was reading aloud to my sons out of a book about Clara Barton, I came across a sentence that i read, then re-read, then re-read again. It was about Clara Barton, the founder of the US Red Cross during the Civil War, becoming weary on the battle front. 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