Word Wright 2

Question 1

Pique

Answer 1

• Feeling of irrigation/resentment from a slight- mainly one’s pride
• Stimulate interest/curiosity

Question 2

Carnal

Answer 2

• Relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities

Question 3

Twine (v)

Answer 3

• Cause to wind or spiral round something

Question 4

Redeem

Answer 4

• Compensates for the faults or bad aspects of something

* Gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment

Question 5

Hymn

Answer 5

• (N) Religious song or poem, praise to God or a god

* (V) Praise or celebrate

Question 6

Mortal

Answer 6

• (Adj & N) Living human being in contrast to divine being
• Causing or liable to cause death; fatal

Question 7

Cur

Answer 7

• (N) Aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition, especially a mongrel

Question 8

Foe

Answer 8

• (N) Enemy of opponent

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

• (N) Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 10

Caesura

Answer 10

• (N) Pause near the middle of the line; break or interruption

Question 11

Metrical

Answer 11

• (Adj) Relating to, or composed in poetic meter; involving measurement

Question 12

Word Play

Answer 12

• (N) Witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words, especially in puns

Question 13

Martial

Answer 13

• (Adj) Appropriate to war; warlike

Question 14

Somber

Answer 14

• (Adj) Dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy

* Somber in mood; grave

Question 15

Exhortatory

Answer 15

• (N) Address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something

Question 16

Half Rhyme

Answer 16

• Stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match
Ex: moon

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

• Ex: sharply stupid; contradicts

Question 18

Inextricable

Answer 18

• (Adj) Impossible to disentangle or separate; can’t escape

Question 19

Jaunty

Answer 19

• (Adj) Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner

Question 20

Satirical

Answer 20

• (Adj) Using satire
• Sarcastic, critical, mocking one’s weakness
• Synonym: ironic

Question 21

Moralistic

Answer 21

• Characterized by or expressive of concern with morality

Question 22

Iambic

Answer 22

• Using iambs
• Iambic pentameter= a line of verse with 5 metrical feet, consisting of one short syllable and one long syllable
• Ex: Two households, both alike in dignity

Question 23

Assonance

Answer 23

• (N) Repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
• Ex: Penitence, Reticence

Question 24

Personification

Answer 24

• Examples: Her life passed her by
• The funeral raced by me in a blur
• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky

Question 25

Dirge

Answer 25

• (N) Lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite
• Mournful song, music, or poem

Question 26

Rueful

Answer 26

• (Adj) Expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way

Question 27

Undercut

Answer 27

• (V) Offer goods or services at a lower price than a competitor
• Cut or wear away the part below or under something

Question 28

Elegiac

Answer 28

• (Adj) Especially of a work of art, having a mournful quality

Question 29

Onomatopoeia

Answer 29

• Examples: Water plops into a pond

* Whoosh, passing breeze

Question 30

Irony

Answer 30

• Sarcastic

* Different forms

Question 31

Amplify

Answer 31

• (V) Increase the volume of

* Increase amplitude of (electrical signal)

Question 32

Whelp

Answer 32

• A puppy or cub

* A boy or young man- as a disparaging form of address