What is to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone?
100
Object that portrays freedom, liberty, and justice
What is a flag?
100
colloquialism
What is speech that is used in ordinary conversation?
100
Cacophonous
What is an unpleasant sound?
200
point (noun)
What is to extend a finger in a direction of something to aim at or to draw attention to?
200
point (verb)
What is the act of pointing at something with a finger or pointer?
200
refers to language that denotes ideas, emotions, conditions, or concepts that are intangible
What is abstract?
200
“Grendel's mother, monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.
She had been forced down into fearful waters, he cold depths, after Cain had killed. His father's son, felled his own brother with a sword.” (Beowulf)
What is formal?
200
The quality of a pleasant or harmonious sound of a word or group of words for an intended effect. Often achieved through long vowels and some consonants, such as “sh.”
What is euphony?
300
dead (adj)
What is having passed from living state, no longer alive?
300
dead (adj)
What is no longer in use, no longer relevant or important?
300
Existing in a material or physical form
What is concrete?
300
the use of slang and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language
What is informal?
300
"We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will." -Winston Churchill
What is cacophony?
400
touch (verb)
What is to come in physical contact with someone or something, especially the fingertips?
400
touch (verb)
What is to have an effect or influence on someone or something?
400
"We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power." (Barton and Hudson)
What is abstract?
400
another word for colloquial
What is slang?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! "I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
(The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost)
What is euphony?
500
comprehend (verb)
What is to understand?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! comprehensions (Verb)
What is the mind being able to perceive, to group ideas, and to know?
500
"Glory be to God for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pierced-fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim." Gary Soto's "History" (1977)
What is concrete?
500
The authors purpose is to inspire a sense of reality and sometimes to give their work a modern touch.
What is to inspire a sense of reality?
500
"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back." (Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll)