VERB-NOUN RHYME VIII

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. Harass a beggar: _______ a _______

 

2. Take a distaste to fame: _______ on _______ 

 

3. To lecture about self-guilt: _______ on _______

4. Disclose a business transaction: _______ the _______

 

5. Speak in behalf of protecting a songbird: _______ a _______

6. Strongly urge someone to make a witty reply: _______ a _______

7. Imitate (to ridicule) a person who's always negative: _______ a _______

8. To understand the basic building block of all matter: _______ the _______

 

Answers:

 

1. Badger a cadger

2. Frown on renown

3. Discourse on remorse

4. Reveal the deal

5. Defend the wren

6. Exhort a retort

7. Mimic a cynic

8. Fathom the atom 

VERB-NOUN RHYME VII

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. Deceive a blue-nose: _______ a _______ 

 

2. Stir up disagreement: _______    _______

 

3.  Compete in the firmament: _______ in the _______

4. Yearn for an oil-carrying vessel: _______ for a _______

 

5. Prevent or obstruct a judge's ruling: _______ the _______

6. Express disdain for Caribbean sorcery: _______ the _______

7. Be remiss in submitting a job history: _______ the _______

 

8. Get cozy and comfortable in a ship: _______ in a _______ 

9. Be exceedingly fond of a billy or nanny: _______ on _______

10. Draw a coquette's attention away from the topic:  _______ a _______

Answers:

 

1. Delude a prude

2. Foment dissent

3. Vie in the sky

4. Hanker for a tanker

5. Thwart the court

6. Pooh pooh the voodoo

7. Delay the resume

8. Nestle in a vessel

9. Dote on a goat

10. Divert a flirt

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

 

 

 

VERB-NOUN RHYME V

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. Hurry a bricklayer: _______ a _______

2. Fall from the top: _______ from the _______

3. Fix a cetacean on a sharp stake: _______ a _______

4. Talk foolishly about bovine creatures: _______ about _______

5. Run off and marry a hater of mankind: _______ with a _______

6. Speak abusively of one who loves books: _______ a _______

 

7. Have a high opinion of the ruling party: _______ the _______

 

8. Scorn the established royal power: _______ the _______

 

9. Exchange good-humored ridicule while on an easy gallop: _______ on a _______

10. Shun a half-sized newspaper full of photographs and sensational stories: _______ a _______

 

Answers:

 

1. Hasten a mason

2. Plummet from the summit

3. Impale a whale

4. Prattle about cattle

5. Elope with a misanthrope

6. Revile a bibliophile

7. Esteem the regime

8. Disdain the reign

9. Banter on a canter

10. Avoid a tabloid 

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

 

VERB-NOUN RHYME III 

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. For example, given the clue, 

To forbid a display: _______ an _______ ,

the answer would be: PROHIBIT an EXHIBIT.

 

1. Boast about an excursion: _______ a _______

 

2. Throw deer meat overboard: _______   _______

 

3. Talk glibly to a corpse: _______ with a _______

 

4. Severely criticize an aphorism: _______ the _______ 

 

5. Belittle a procession of horses: _______ a _______ 

6. Avoid or escape a verbal attack: _______ a _______

7. Hinder or delay a false story or hoax: _______ a _______

 

8. To be without an Asian beast of burden: _______ a _______

9. Meet a certain marsupial at an appointed time: _______ with a _______

10. Call into question the integrity of a wealthy industrialist: _______ a _____

 

Answers:

 

1. Vaunt a jaunt

2. Jettison venison 

3. Palaver with a cadaver

4. Condemn the apothegm

5. Degrade the cavalcade

6. Evade a tirade

7. Retard a canard

8. Lack a yak

9. Rendezvous with a kangaroo

10. Impugn a tycoon 

VERB-NOUN RHYME II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue below 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. For example, given the clue,

Condemn an undertaking: _______  a  _______ ,

the answer would be: CENSURE a VENTURE.

1. To forbid a display: _______ an _______

 

2. To enjoy the taste of something: _______ the _______

 

3. To throw rubbish: _______   _______

 

4. Forbid by law a bitter denunciation: _______ a _______

5. To disguise a malicious attack: _______ the _______

 

6. To place a large rock on one's scapula: _______ a _______

 

7. To conquer or overcome great suffering: _______   _______

 

8. Refuse to allow a ship's goods to be unloaded: _______ the _______

 

9. To have doubts at the very point of marriage: _______ at the _______

 

10. To speak abusively of the side view of a human face: _______ the _______

 

Answers:

 

1. Prohibit an exhibit

2. Savor the flavor

3. Toss dross

4. Proscribe a diatribe

5. Camouflage the sabotage

6. Shoulder a boulder

7. Vanquish anguish

8. Embargo the cargo

9. Falter at the altar

10. Revile the profile 

 

VERB-NOUN RHYME I 

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue below 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. For example, given the clue,

 

To demote a representative: _______ a   _______ ,

 

the answer would be RELEGATE a DELEGATE. 

1. Charge a fairy with a crime: _______ a   _______

2. Condemn an undertaking: _______ a  _______

3. Blame the team trainer: _______ the _______

4: Claim generous giving: _______  _______

5. Praise the objective: _______ the  _______

6. Spitefully criticize a plan: _______ the _______

7. Rob a small community: _______ a _______

8. Avoid the entourage: _______ the _______

9. Bully an apparition: _______ a _______

10. Surrender the playing or battle area: _______ the _______

Answers:

 

1. Indict a sprite

2. Censure a venture

3. Reproach the coach

4. Profess largesse

5. Extol the goal

6. Malign the design

7. Pillage a village

8. Eschew the retinue

9. Hector a specter

10. Yield the field