Metaphorical Definitions 2000

Admiration is seizing the day. (Caitlin Dennis)

Agility is the movement of a cheetah. (Beau Tresemer)

Anger is a charging bull. (Melanie Burchfield)

Anger is constantly asking the question "why?" and never getting an answer. ( Rebecca Ford)

Anger is thunder on a sunny day. (Jeanette Norris)

Anger is your sister wrecking your car. (Amelia Hall)

Apathy is a student sleeping in class. (Sandra Effinger)

Apathy is my still unfinished Catcher in The Rye. (Judie Matthews)

Awe is the universe. (Rachel Dickey)

Beauty is a poverty-stricken family providing food for a homeless child. (Jessica Luo)

Beauty is a red rose (petals and thorns). (Emily McRae)

Beauty is a sunflower. (Cynthia Johnson)

Betrayal is being lied to by your friends. (Sarah Black)

Calmness is perfectly still waters on a lake. (Shauna Hoggan)

Coldness is a rude person in line in front of you. (Kristy Gunther)

Comfort is coming home from a hard day and having a pet who will let you cuddle with them while you cry. (Shannon Gangl)

Confidence is a big smile. (Courtney Ferguson)

Confusion is going to church on Sunday and listening to the preacher speak. (Daniel Mitchell)

Contentment is a full hopper of paint and the game just starting. (Jacob Powers)

Craziness is me trying to understand biology.(Julia Zabawa)

Debonair is Bond . . . James Bond (Klein . . . Brendan Klein)

Disappointment is a movie with a bad ending. (Natalie Reynolds)

Disappointment is a stalling car. (Stephen Weimer)

Envy is wanting another man's girl. (Jeff Ellison)

Equality is being beat by a girl. (Joshua Hinkle)

Excitement is washing your mad cat. (Sara McArthur)

Faith is a burning candle, withstanding strong winds. (Lauren Williams)

Faith is knowing someone will catch you on a ropes course. (Rebekah Swanson)

Fear is a big truck drifting into your lane. (Clint Givens)

Fear is the sound of silence. (Melissa Ireland)

Forgiveness is a refreshing shower. (Kristin Jones)

Forgiveness is allowing your friend to make the same mistake again. (Mikki Gramoll)

Freedom is a bird flying over the ocean. (Eaman Talai)

Freedom is driving around with the top down in the middle of the winter. (Jenni Hougland)

Freedom is running naked on a beach with waves crashing at your feet. (Nathan Fite)

Friendship is baking cookies into the letters that spell the names of the boys you both like. (Jennifer Morgan)

Friendship is talking on the phone until 8:15 in the morning every summer night. ( Kendall Beller)

Frustration is not being able to think of a definition for depression. (Sarah Caldwell)

Frustration is doing an Algebra problem ten times and still getting the same wrong answer. (Stacey Sheely)

Glory is the rising sun. (Jenny Martin)

Gluttony is taking the last scoop of ice-cream although you're already full. (Vanessa Fields)

Happiness is a '66 black Vette with T-tops. (Cason Clagg)

Happiness is a banana yellow McLaron F1 in my garage. (Joey Wishnuck)

Happiness is a belt-fed paint gun. (Grant Mouser)

Happiness is a big burrito. ( Katharine Franklin)

Happiness is a day with no homework. (Joel Tims)

Happiness is a good book. (Wes Williams)

Happiness is a great song. (Jeremy Jaqua)

Happiness is a warm pot of soup when I get home from school. (Greg Hoyt)

Happiness is an entire day of free time. (Leigh-Ann Smothers)

Happiness is an open road and a full tank of gas. (Andrew Carruth)

Happiness is completing your autobiography. (Luke Matthews),

Happiness is drinking lemonade on a beach under an umbrella in the blazing sun. (Blair Thompson)

Happiness is dumping Pixy Stix in your mouth. (Sarah Kerr)

Happiness is eating as much food as you can. (Darold Ross)

Happiness is pulling five G's in a loopty loop maneuver in a F-22 Raptor. (Derrick Maynord)

Happiness is reeling in a huge fish. (Brandon Yohn)

Happiness is scoring the winning goal in the World Cup finals. (Matt Ottis)

Happiness is sitting on the beach listening to the waves hit the shore. (Kyle Cervi)

Hatred is a lit match in a fireworks factory.
. . .So is love. (Tony Pyles)

Hope is knowing that there is something better on the other side of the river. (Sheena Karami)

Hope is searching for your shoe for a year and still thinking you will find it. (Rachel Swing)

Hope is seeing the glass as half full. (Chelsea Blackmon)

Hope is the first flower at winter's end. (Melissa Caddell)

Humour is staying up until four on the phone with a best friend, giggling maniacally over everything that comes out of your mouth. (Kasandra Dewbre)

Joy is dating the captain of the pom squad. (Scott Nees)

Joy is music. (Rachel White)

Laziness is a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Katie Barton)

Loneliness is a loved one's death. (Kylie Alvis)

Love is seeing beautiful blue eyes. (Shawn Opoien)

Love is when you think of someone all day, you wake up thinking about him, fall asleep thinking about him, you even dream about him, you smile every time you hear his name, and you can't imagine living without him. (Kandyce Lang)

Luck is finding 20 bucks between the couch cushions. (Cameron Forester)

Peace is a summer night where no wind waves through the air, and the moon shines bright. (Mike J. Morgan)

Peace is watching A Few Good Men. (Alex Montgomery)

Peace is watching a rainbow in the mist. (Will McManus)

Prejudice is a walk around the globe with a blindfold on. (Ogedi Atukpawu)

Relief is telling my parents what I got on my report card and them not punishing me. (Jessica Carver)

Relief is waking up from a nightmare and realizing it was just a dream. (Shonda Elston)

Sadness is flunking a test. (Fu-Mei Bacon)

Sadness is MTV cutting a Britney Spears video short. (Matt McIntyre)

Sadness is not getting your Fruity Pebbles in the morning. (Katie DeWitt)

Satisfaction is a cup of raisin bran and cold skim milk. (Ana Terrazas)

Stupidity is trying to get on the service road and getting on the exit ramp backwards instead. (Jewls Morris)

Stupidity is wearing shoes without socks. (Jenny Brodersen)

Success is not working, but having people work for you. (Alex Dye)

Wisdom is a story told by a ripened grandfather. (Becky Watley)

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