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Word Wright-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| chopping block | a wooden block on which material (as meat, wood, or vegetables) is cut, split, or diced |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| alight | to come down from something (as a vehicle): as a : dismount b : deplane |
| stake | a pointed piece of wood or other material driven or to be driven into the ground as a marker or support |
| avocation | an activity that one engages in as a hobby outside one's main occupation |
| hulking | massive |
| mortal | causing or having caused death : fatal <a mortal injury> 2 a : subject to death |
| divining rod | a forked rod believed to indicate the presence of water or minerals especially by dipping downward when held over a vein |
| twain | two; especially |
| vocation | : a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action; especially : a divine call to the religious life |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| colloquialism | of or relating to conversation : conversational |
| pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
| dactyl/ dactylic | a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly) |
| ethical | relating to ethics: (a set of moral principles) |
| diction | obsolete : verbal description 2 : choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
| whimsy | the quality or state of being whimsical or fanciful |
| oratorical | of or relating to oratory: ( a place of prayer; especially : a private or institutional chapel) |
| metaphoric | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language — compare simile |
| trimeter | a line of verse consisting of three dipodies or three metrical feet |
| hexameter | a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet See hexameter defined for kids » |
| arcane | known or knowable only to the initiate : secret <arcane rites>; broadly : mysterious, obscure |
| antithetical | constituting or marked by antithesis 2 : being in direct and unequivocal opposition |
| concrete | naming a real thing or class of things <the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract> |
| wheedling | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| idiomatic | of or relating to idiom:(the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect) |
| tetrameter | a line of verse consisting either of four dipodies (as in classical iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse) or four metrical feet (as in modern English verse) |
| iamb/iambic | metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above) |
| anapest/anapestic | 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/trochaic | 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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