BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

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

 

1. Forerunner

2. Summarize

3. Next to last 

4. The "I" in IPO

5. Incite or instigate

6. Emerging, beginning 

7. Stop immediately - often a legal term 

8. The very earliest stage of development

9. The first inhabitants of a place or country

10. Biblical book about the creation of the earth

11. Tendency to revert to something in the past

12. The final books of the Old and New Testaments

13. Additional information at the end of a book or document

14. The final day recommended for sale of a perishable product

15. A woman in a religious order before she takes her final vows

Answers:

 

1. Precursor

2. Recapitulate

3. Penultimate

4. Initial (public offering)

5. Precipitate

6. Nascent

7. Cease and desist

8. Embryonic

9. Aborigines

10. Genesis

11. Atavism

12. Malachi and Revelation, respectively

13. Appendix

14. Expiration date 

15. Novitiate