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third meet words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Avocation | a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables, etc., are placed for cutting, trimming, chopping, and the like. |
| stake | a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning. |
| twain | a word for two |
| alight | burning;dismount from horse;settle or stay after descending |
| hulking | heavy and clumsy; bulky |
| divining rod | rod, especially a forked stick, commonly of hazel, supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc |
| vocation | a call to service, or divine duty |
| grandiloquent | expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous |
| didactic | teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson. |
| colloquialism | conversational |
| pentameter | unrhymed verse of five iambic feet |
| dactyl | a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter |
| ethical | pertaining to moral |
| diction | word chioce |
| whimsy | fanciful, |
| Oratorical | relating to an oratory, speech giver |
| trimeter | a line of verse consisting of three dipodies or three metrical feet |
| hexameter | a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet |
| arcane | mysterious, obscure |
| antithetical | being in direct oppsition |
| wheedling | use of flattery to get what they want |
| idomatic | relating to an idiom, an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements |
| tetrameter | a line of verse consisting either of four dipodies |
| iamb/iambic | a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (above) |
| anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable or of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (as unaware) |
| trochee | a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by one short syllable or of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable (as in apple) |
| aphoristic | a concise statement of a principle |
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rmaurer010
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