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Word Wright
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chopping Block | a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables, are placed for cutting, trimming, and chopping |
| Lurk | to lie or wait in concealment |
| Avocation | a person's regular occupation |
| Stake | a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, |
| Alight | to encounter or notice something accidentally |
| Hulking | heavy and clumsy; bulky. |
| Mortal | subject to death |
| Divining Rod | a rod, especially a forked stick, commonly of hazel, supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, |
| Twain | American author and humorist |
| Vocation | a strong impulse; a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling |
| Grandiloquent | speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic |
| Didactic | teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson |
| Colloquialism | a word or phrase appropriate to conversation and other informal situations |
| Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
| Dactyl/Dactylic | a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter |
| Ethical | pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct |
| Diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Whimsy | capricious humor or disposition |
| Oratorical | skill or eloquence in public speaking |
| Metaphoric | something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol |
| Trimeter | a verse of three measures or feet |
| Hexameter | consisting of six metrical feet |
| Arcane | known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret |
| Antithetical | directly opposed or contrasted; opposite |
| Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real |
| Wheedling | to persuade |
| Idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect |
| Tetrameter | a verse of four feet |
| Iamb/Iambic | a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter |
| Anapest/Anapestic | a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter |
| Trochee/Trochaic | a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter |
| Aphoristic | a short pithy saying expressing a general truth |
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