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Have you ever noticed how roses seem to be everywhere? I mean, think about it. You can buy them in the grocery store, sleep on sheets printed with them, plaster your walls with rose wallpaper. You find them embroidered on sweatshirts for grannies and hot tea seems to be best friends with rose china.

When we describe things, for instance, we might say they are rosy, as in a child's rosy cheeks. If we experience a particularly beautiful sunrise we could say it was a rose dawn. Little successes during the day make us feel like things are coming up roses.

On the other hand a doctor might describe a small rash as rosaceous. Unless of course it was a more significant virus known as roseola. A designer, either of fasions or household items, might call for the specific rosaniline dye, which by the way, isn't made from roses. An architect may specify a stain glass rosette window or wooden rosette cornices.

As you can see, roses and things rose, permeate our existence. To test your 'rose sense' take the little quiz below. When you submit your quiz the answers will be returned to you on another page.

Self Testing Rose Lore Quiz

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1. When you are describing a certain ruddy color you which of the following words would you use to describe it? Choose as many as you like:

rosy rosette rosaceous rosaniline

2. Which of the following words refers to a particular dye?

rose rosaniline roseola

3. Which of the following words refers to a mild skin rash?

rosette rosaniline roseola

4. You are having some remodeling done. You tell your architect you want to make your living room more formal. Which of the following might he suggest to describe end pieces for the trim boards or moulding?

roseaterosettarosette

5. It's early spring. You are an avid gardener, unfortunately, your spouse has been transferred to the Alaskan Division of the company. It's April, you should be in the garden, you want to be in the garden, but there's still snow on the ground. You peer dolefully out the kitchen window to your new back yard. There you see a small bushy plant, it's kind of spindly looking. It has long red stems which are very thorny and reddish raisin-like dried up berries hanging on it. The light goes on and you exclaim to yourself,
"My god it's a

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