VERB-NOUN RHYME IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue is followed by two blanks. To answer the clue, fill in the first blank with a verb and the second with a noun that rhymes with it. 

1. Try to convert a cave dweller: _______ a _______

2. Speed up a vote by the entire populace: _______ a _______

3. Refuse a medicine that relieves pain: _______ an _______

4. Discover a fault: _______ a _______

5. Act with abject humility in a shack: _______ in a _______

6. Deliver a sermon to a parasite: ______ to a _______

7. Surround the West: _______ the _______

8. Subdue the impulse to eruct: _______ a _______

9. Tease and amphibian: ____ a _______

10. Shrink with fear in prison: _______ in _______

11. A flood in a sanctuary: _______ in a _______

12. Flatter or cajole Plymouth Colony figure: _______  _______  _______

Answers:

 

1. Proselyte a troglodyte

2. Expedite a plebiscite

3. Decline an anodyne

4. Detect a defect

5. Grovel in a hovel

6. Preach to a leech

7. Circumvent the Occident

8. Squelch a belch

9. Goad a toad

10. Quail in jail

11. Deluge a refuge

12. Blandish Myles Standish