ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME V

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue An insulin-dependent person who travels a lot, the adjective-noun rhyming phrase could be Peripatetic diabetic.

 

1. A dull riddle

2. Terse counsel

3. A privy at sea

4. A shapeless dolphin

5. A certain bee winner 

6. An exact instrument or machine

7. A surgical stitch that remains to be given

8. One who likes to hug and kiss in the moonlight

9. A whining betrayer of his country to its conqueror

10. An excellent plant valued for its medicinal properties

 

Answers:

 

1. Humdrum conundrum 

2. Concise advice

3. Marine latrine

4. Amorphous porpoise

5. Stellar speller

6. Precise device

7. Future suture

8. Lunar spooner

9. Sniveling quisling

10. Superb herb 

ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME IV

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue Heavenly fabric, the adjective-noun rhyming phrase could be Ethereal material. 

 

1. A surly snub

2. A haughty, disdainful pirate

3. An unsatisfying, dull melody

4. A buried ornithological specimen

5. An inborn characteristic of personality

6. A genuinely difficult or trying experience 

7. A cheerful person with preternatural vision

8. A  person who requires insulin and travels a lot

9. Physically and morally spent distinguished group

10. An obsessed person who is able to attract followers

 

Answers:

 

1. Gruff rebuff

2. Cavalier buccaneer

3. Jejune tune

4. Interred bird

5. Innate trait

6. Real ordeal

7. Buoyant clairvoyant

8. Peripatetic diabetic

9. Effete elite

10. Charismatic fanatic 

ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue, A conspicuous tramp or beggar, the adjective-noun phrase could be Flagrant vagrant. 

 

1. A cowardly crow

2. Heavenly fabric

3. A silly chorus

4. A succinct poem

5. A stylish coterie

6. The most delicious food

7. A reclining office holder

8. A small, constant whirlpool

9. Lima resident before the Great Flood

10. A commonplace performer on horseback 

Answers:

 

1. Craven raven

2. Ethereal material

3. Inane refrain

4. Terse verse

5. Chic clique

6. Supreme cuisine

7. Recumbent incumbent

8. Steady eddy

9. Antediluvian Peruvian

10. Pedestrian equestrian

ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

 

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue, Just your everyday frog, the adjective-noun answer phrase could be Quotidian amphibian.

1. Seven dreary days

2. An eccentric prophet

3. Intellectual migration

4. A lot of mistreatment

5. An habitual accomplice

6. A talkative country bumpkin

7. A conspicuous tramp or beggar

8. A court that meets during the day

9. A complete narrow trench make by a plow

10. A person who requires insulin and travels widely

Answers:

 

1. Bleak week

2. Queer seer

3. Brain drain

4. Profuse abuse

5. Inveterate confederate

6. Vocal yokel

7. Flagrant vagrant

8. Diurnal tribunal

9. Thorough furrow

10. Peripatetic diabetic

 

ADJECTIVE - NOUN RHYME I

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Can you think of an adjective-noun phrase to answer each clue in which the two words rhyme? For example, given the clue, A scholarly hermit, the adjective-noun answer could be Erudite eremite.

1. A harsh, boisterous meeting

2. Just your everyday frog

3. An evil clergyman

4. An angry, flirty woman

5. A subconscious law-breaker

6. A boorish detective

7. An unchanging sky

8. One who worries excessively on occasion

9. An unkept secret meeting with a lover

10. A magazine published only in the spring

Answers:

 

1. Raucous caucus 

2. Quotidian amphibian

3. Sinister minister

4. Upset coquette

5. Subliminal criminal

6. Uncouth sleuth

7. Permanent firmament

8. Periodic neurotic

9. Missed tryst

10. Vernal journal