VERB-NOUN RHYME VI

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. Show one's rotundity: _______ a _______

 

2. Steal the tableware: _______ the _______

 

3. Restrain a regurgitation: _______ a _______

 

4. Talk foolishly about bovine creatures: _______ about _______ 

5. Be determined to sell to the highest bidder: _______ as an _______

6. Find guilty a newly married man long a bachelor: _______ a _______

7. Control one who willfully destroys or defaces property: _______ a _______

8. Deceive an excessively prim and proper person: _______ a _______

9. Prevent or obstruct a judicial body: _______ a _______

10. Barricade an arched, bridge-like, water-carrying structure: _______ a _______.

Answers: 

 

1. Divulge a bulge

2. Pilfer the silver

3. Squelch a belch

4. Prattle about cattle

5. Persevere as an auctioneer

6. Convict a benedict

7. Handle a vandal

8. Delude a prude

9. Thwart a court

10. Obstruct a viaduct