RHYME Time? - Answers1. Pahk the cah neah the bah. Rhotacism (from the Greek letter “rho,” which corresponds roughly to our “R”) is the tendency to change an R-sound. This may involve dropping it, adding it (as in Linder, lawr, or Florider), or changing it in some other way.2. Writing about saints. It refers to literature dealing with the lives of saints (or sometimes it’s a list of saints). 3. A tent-like house. Some nomadic peoples of central Asia live in yurts—portable circular dwellings, with dome-shaped or cone-shaped tops. 4. Matriculate means to enroll, be admitted (especially to a university). Soon after matriculating at the prestigious school, she began writing for the student newspaper. 5. A perfect example. He is the very epitome of the absent-minded professor. (It can also mean summary, as of a book or article.) |
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