a botanist learns much about life through his studies of plants. to him a plant is something to work on with. he sees a plant as a thing of wonder. the botanist learns about the growth in living things. he discovers diseases that attack man. the study of plants may someday tell us much about ourselves​

SSIPOG - conversation about the personal details of other people's lives, whether rumor or fact, especially when malicious.

GOSSIP is a conversation about the personal details of other people's lives, whether rumor or fact, especially when malicious.

Explanation:

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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