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[missdaredevil]

1. Aborinal people in where I am from have darker skin color and *accentuated* facial features.
Is that how people say it?

2. Children ages 7*-*12 can celebrate their birthdays...
-= do I pronounce it *to*?

3.
Help the *hired hands* in the garderns and farm buildings.
people who are hired to work?

4
*grace * yourself...
I heard someone use it and i forgot the context. Would someone tell me what it means?

5.
I am working at this company and at the same time building my personal network, so that if my sister comes to work here she will have an easier time.
Can I say "I am paving the road for her?"

6. *Tend heirloom vegetables* in the garden and help cook on the wood-burning stove in the farmhouse.
What is that? How can fresh vegetables be heirloom?

7.
The haunted house is *open* as a historic house musuem.
as in open to the public?

Thanks a lot guys

[cgage2]

1. The term is usually aboriginal
2. to
3.yes
4. I don't know. Maybe, give yourself grace?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grace
5. yes
6. There are no heirloom vegetables
An heirloom is like your grandmothers' jewels
7. yes

[bud]

1. "Accentuated" is probably OK. "Strong" or "prominent" would work, too.

6. "Tend" means "take care of."

Actually, there are such things as heirloom vegetables and flowers. Think of apples and roses! There are many varieties of apples and hundreds (maybe thousands) of varieties of roses. But you can buy seeds or starter plants for only a relatively few of these many varieties. Why? I'm not sure, but maybe most kinds are not commercially profitable. Maybe they are too difficult or expensive to grow on a mass scale.

Avid gardeners grow these "forgotten" varieties. They cannot buy the seeds from a garden center or a seed catalog. Rather, each year they save seeds from this year's harvest to plant next year. In many cases, the original plants were planted by grandparents or great grandparents. So in a sense, the seeds have been passed down through the generations. That's why they're called heirloom.

[CP]

4. You might be thinking of "brace yourself." That is something you would say to someone just before some blow is about to be delivered, like bad news, or a crash of some sort.
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