ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

 

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue, Just your everyday frog, the adjective-noun answer phrase could be Quotidian amphibian.

1. Seven dreary days

2. An eccentric prophet

3. Intellectual migration

4. A lot of mistreatment

5. An habitual accomplice

6. A talkative country bumpkin

7. A conspicuous tramp or beggar

8. A court that meets during the day

9. A complete narrow trench make by a plow

10. A person who requires insulin and travels widely

Answers:

 

1. Bleak week

2. Queer seer

3. Brain drain

4. Profuse abuse

5. Inveterate confederate

6. Vocal yokel

7. Flagrant vagrant

8. Diurnal tribunal

9. Thorough furrow

10. Peripatetic diabetic