Tuesday, August 11, 2015

RHYME TIME III
Credit: The Word's The Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

Note from JA: The author of The Word's The Thing is my Uncle Lou. It is a massive collection of vocabulary exercises which he compiled as a text for his English literature students.

Use the clue provided to find two rhyming words beginning with the given initials.

1. RC - A harsh, boisterous meeting
2. SM - An evil clergyman
3. SC - A subconscious law breaker
4. US - A boorish detective
5. DS - A terrible father
6. PF - An unchanging sky
7. FT - A prolific tortoise
8. MT - An unkept lover's appointment
9. EF - A summer celebration
10. VJ - A magazine published only in the Spring
11. UQ - An inadequately nourished four-legged animal
12. PN - A person who suffers from temporary, minor, mental issues
13. QA -An airplane that takes off daily and can land on either land or water

Answers:

1. Raucous caucus
2. Sinister minister
3. Subliminal criminal
4. Uncouth sleuth
5. Dire sire
6. Permanent firmament
7. Fertile turtle
8. Missed tryst
9. Estival festival
10. Vernal journal
11. Underfed quadruped
12. Periodic neurotic
13. Quotidian amphibian

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