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Wordwright
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chopping Block | A block for chopping wood |
| Lurk | Be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something |
| Avocation | A hobby or minor occupation |
| Stake | A sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture; A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, act as a boundary |
| Alight | Descend from the air and settle |
| Hulking | Large, heavy, or clumsy |
| Mortal | Subject to death |
| Divining Rod | A stick or rod used for dowsing |
| Twain | Mark Twain; two |
| Vocation | A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation |
| Gradiloquent | Pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, esp. in a way that is intended to impress |
| Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive |
| Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation |
| Pentameter | A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable |
| Dactyl/Dactylic | A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable |
| ethical | Of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |
| Whimsy | Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor |
| Oratorical | characteristic of an orator or oratory |
| Metaphorical | expressing one thing in terms normally denoting anoth |
| Trimeter | A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet |
| Hexameter | A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, esp. of six dactyls |
| Arcane | Understood by few; mysterious or secret |
| Antithetical | Directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible |
| Concrete | Existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract |
| Wheedling | Employ endearments or flattery to persuade someone to do something or give one something |
| Idiomatic | sing, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker |
| Tetrameter | A verse of four measures |
| Iamb/Iambic | A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable |
| Anapest/Anapestic | A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable |
| Trochiac | Consisting of or featuring trochees |
| Aphoristic | axiomatic: containing aphorisms or maxims |
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