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MNO, and a Couple of Ps - Answers

1. A pleasant voice (from Latin terms for flow and honey). Melanie’s mellifluous voice enchanted the audience.

2. Evening, night (from Latin through French, meaning night). Chopin’s "Nocturne," the jazz standard "Autumn Nocturne," and several paintings deal with subjects related to night or evening.

3. A shiny oil slick. Something opalescent gives off a play of different colors, the way an opal does.

4. Be stingy with money. Parsimonious (from a Latin term for thrift or frugality) means excessively frugal, even stingy.

5. A reckless spender. The word (from a Latin term meaning broken down) means recklessly wasteful or extravagant; It can also mean shamelessly immoral.

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