NOUN-NOUN RHYME I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue below can be answered by two rhyming nouns. For example, given the clue, "An inadequacy of merriment," the answer would be, "A dearth of mirth."

1. A cemetery in a city

2. A fashionable cad 

3. A very angry wise man 

4. Frivolity for a short time

5. Lamentation of a wood nymph

6. A small group meeting in ancient Rome

7. A blacksmith who stays longer than expected

8. A quack peddles his medicine behind a speaker's stand

Answers:

 

1. A necropolis in a metropolis

2. A rogue in vogue

3. A sage in a rage

4. Levity with brevity

5. Jeremiad of a dryad 

6. A quorum in the forum

7. A tarrier farrier

8. Nostrum from a rostrum