Old World Rivers
Easily confused
What is that word?
I am a poet and I don't know it
Which one will you choose?
100

It flows from the Alps and is the longest river in Europe

What is the Rhine?

100

Claire walked (farther | further) up the mountain

What is farther?

100

to inspect, observe or survey

What is reconnoiter?

100

to assign the qualities of a person to something that is not human

What is personification?

100

He was, however, duly/genial and kind-hearted, a great lawyer and a faithful minister.

What is genial?

200
This was the ancient frontier for the Roman Empire

What is the Danube?

200

The gate is (all together | altogether) ruined so let’s build a new one

What is altogether?

200

To obtain or bring about by diligent effort and care

What is procure?

200

the rhythm of the poem

What is meter?

200

So little did he understand the seriousness of the situation that, when the laconic/magnanimous message "All is over!" arrived, he couldn't speak .

What is laconic?

300
This river is important to this very big country's shipping industry.

What is the Volga?

300

You know when the new policy will take (effect | affect) don’t you?

what is effect?

300

with great skill or ability

What is dexterity?

300

the main idea and message of a poem.


What is Theme?
300

Your permission was duly/implicit when you handed me your car keys.  

What is implicit?

400

This river begins in an ice cave called the "Cow's mouth"

What is the Ganges river?

400

We need a friend who's/whose always near when we need him.

What is who's?

400
expressed in a few words, concise

What is succinct?

400

two things being seen or placed
close together with contrasting effect

What is juxtaposition?

400

Overwhelmed with chagrin/dexterity, Formosus died on the 4th of April 896

What is chagrin?

500

This one flows through 11 countries in this continent creating a beautiful fertile valley.

What is the Nile?

500

Mark feels (bad | badly) that he was late

what is bad?

500

humiliation, disappointment, or distress caused by failure

What is chagrin?

500

to compress a lot of meaning into a small number of words

What is to write aphoristically?


500

We succinct/ don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without.

What is don?

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