IRISH - Answers1. Easily provoked, irritated, angered (from Latin irasci, to grow angry). The irascible old grouch grumbled when he scored low on the word quiz.2. Chuckles. Risible (from the past participle of Latin ridere, to laugh) can apply to a funny or ludicrous situation, or to someone who laughs readily. 3. Your idiolect is your own personal set of speech patterns, your unique, one-person microdialect. She was surprised to learn that not even her siblings completely shared her own idiolect. (It’s from Greek idio, one’s own, and lect, language variety). 4. A symbiotic relationship is mutually beneficial—as in “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” The honeyguide has a symbiotic relationship with honey-hunters. (It’s from Greek syn/m, together, and bios, life, and it can apply to different species simply living together.) 5. The hellebore (from Greek helleboros) is a flowering plant. He held the buttercup under her chin to see the reflection on her throat, but Nerda said she would have preferred a specimen of the hellebore genus. |
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