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WordWright 3
Word Wright definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chopping Block | a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables |
| Lurk | to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush |
| Avocation | something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, especially for pleasure |
| Stake | a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant |
| Alight | to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle |
| Hulking | heavy and clumsy; bulky. |
| Mortal | subject to death |
| Divining | of or pertaining to a god, especially the Supreme Being |
| Twain | two |
| Vocation | 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 | intended for instruction; instructive |
| colloquialism | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal |
| Pentameter | counts beat and rhythm |
| Dactyl | 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 | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an orator or oratory |
| Metaphoric | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| Trimeter | consisting of three measures or feet. |
| Hexameter | a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot. |
| Arcane | known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric |
| Antithetical | of the nature of or involving antithesis. |
| Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real |
| Wheedling | to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts |
| Idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect |
| Tetrameter | Prosody . a verse of four feet. |
| Iambic | pertaining to the iamb |
| 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 |
| Trochaic | pertaining to the trochee |
| Aphoristic | of, like, or containing aphorisms |
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