"V"erbs
Elementary
Differs by a Vowel
My Deer
Old School
100
To give official sanction to, maybe to help pay for your parking
validate
100
Social studies:
The 3 branches of government are executive, judicial & this
legislative
100
The waltz & a dimwit
dance and dunce
100
To be so frightened as to be unable to move is to be in the thrall of this cervine idiom
a deer [caught] in the headlights
100
This language used to be common even in public school curricula, b
ut in the '60s even the Catholic church dropped it
Latin
200
To leave a job or a room, or to void a legal decision
vacate
200
English & grammer:
Consequentially, it's the misspelled word in the clue, as any proficient liaison wielding a daiquiri knows
grammar
200
A dried fruit & lying flat & facedown
prune and prone
200
You can recognize mule deer & elk tracks:
they have this many toes per print
two
200
[DD]
After Sputnik, our schools tried to catch up with the "new" type of this; it was quickly subtracted from the curriculum
math
300
9 letters:
to fluctuate, or to waver
vacillate
300
Music:
Meter like 4/4 or 3/2 at the beginning of a piece is called this "signature
time
300
It's the bedroom style on the right & what the person on the left is hoping for
loft and lift
300
In a "Sound of Music" song, it's the line that follows "Doe, a deer, a female deer"
ray, a drop of golden sun
300
You dipped a fountain pen, & sometimes a classmate's pigtails, into it
ink (or inkwell)
400
To let off steam, literally or figuratively
vent
400
History:
The 3rd & last Punic War ended with the destruction of this city & the enslavement of its people
Carthage
400
A litter of pigs & a long, shallow trench made by a plow
a furrow and a farrow
400
"The wild deer, wandring here & there, keeps the human soul from care", wrote this poet in "Auguries of Innocence"
(William) Blake
400
Microfilm is spooled in rolls; this similarly named medium can fit about 100 pages on a 4" x 6" sheet
microfiche
500
To slander or defame
to vilify
500
Science:
Lava & igneous rocks form from this molten rock
magma
500
[DD]
Often confused, one word means to cause a change in & the other is the result
effect and affect
500
Felix Salten created her as Bambi's love interest
Faline
500
This 5-letter word meaning "the same" was one name for copies made through spirit duplication; the smell was addictive
ditto