Tech Talk
WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
Names in the Dictionary
R OFF
MAKE IT SINGULAR
100

Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting

Airplane Mode

100

A short life story of someone, & a 3-member musical act

Bio and Trio

100

Chip a piece of furniture, or cut yourself shaving

Nick

100

Let the "R" take a break from the energy required to move an object against a force & season this Asian pan

Wok

100

Alumni
(7 letters)

Alumnus

200

Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port

Thumb Drive

200

A trainee in a skilled trade, & to lure by arousing desire or hope

Apprentice and Entice

200

Specifically, the first light of day

Dawn

200

Remove an "R" from a word for a family member & get this word for annoy, which that person might do to you

Bother

200

Bison (5 letters)

Bison

300

These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression

Streaming

300

A tremulous, pulsating vocal effect, & a food that can be baked or mashed

Vibrato and Potato

300

Toss out, or an inexpensive cut of beef

Chuck

300

Render the "R" from a type of cooking fat & meet this word for a young fellow

Lad

300

Strata (7 letters)

Stratum

400

Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error

Blue Screen of Death

400

Disfiguring skin disease once resulting in quarantining, & a little too interested in the affairs of others

Leprosy and Nosy

400

The head of a college, or the presiding official of a cathedral

Dean

400

Ship off the "R" on the word for a boat's docking locale (or a playoff ______)  & get this first name of female characters with the last name Dutton & Harmon

Beth

400

Codices (5 letters)

Codex

500

Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the RepRap project led to a self-replicating one

3D Printer

500

To pay no attention to, & an Italian version of "Mr." heard in "That's Amore"

Ignore and Signore

500

By definition, a bricklayer or worker in stone

Mason

500

Kick out the "R" from a pile of stones on a hiking trail & wander aimlessly; the word becomes this name of a man with a famous brotherly feud in Genesis

Cain

500

Graffiti:
graffiti or this (8 letters)

Graffito