BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue below can be answered with a word that has something to do with  a beginning or an ending.

1. First performance

2. Graduation exercises

3. Rebirth, renewal of interest

4. Orchestral prelude to an opera 

5. Beginning to end - First to last

6. Bird that hasn't yet learned to fly

7. Origin, birth, or creation of something

8. Ceremonial address by a new President

9. "We the People" paragraph of the Constitution

10. Student who gives the farewell speech at a graduation

11. French for something that's done and can't be change

12. Final and most complete and accurate, as an edition of a book

 

Answers:

 

1. Debut

2. Commencement

3. Renaissance

4. Overture

5. Alpha and Omega 

6. Fledgeling

7. Genesis

8. Inaugural

9. Preamble

10.Valedictorian

11. Fait accompli

12. Definitive 

 

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