Try THESE - Answers1. Music students. Tablature (from a Latin term for board, or put on the board) is a system of notation that uses numbers, letters, or other symbols instead of standard musical notes (e.g., a diagram of strings, with numbers showing where fingers go).2. In a tree. Hamadryad (from Greek hama, together, and drus, oak) is the name given to the wood sprite believed to live inside a tree, and to expire when the tree died. 3. Cooked crayfish. An étouffée (from French for cooked in a closed vessel) is a stew of crayfish, vegetables, etc., served over white rice. 4. A saturnine person is sour and gloomy. It was thought that such people were born under the influence of the planet Saturn. The planet was once thought to be made of lead, so the word was sometimes applied to people suffering from lead poisoning. 5. A veterinarian. The adjective epizootic (from epi, upon, and zoo, animal) refers to diseases that spread rapidly to a large number of animals in a particular region—the health officers feared an epizootic outbreak of avian flu. |
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