POETIC WORDS
THE LIVING WORLD
FROM "C" TO "X"
LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES
THE 40-YEAR-OLD GERMAN
100
Almost George from Seinfeld's last name, this is the name of a "paragraph" in a poem
a stanza
100
In a study on this winter sate of being, the Institute of Arctic Biology found that a bear's heartbeat would slow to 3 per min.
hibernation
100
Synonyms for this word include apex, summit & acme
climax
100
The Babylonians controlled rivers by building a barrage of barrages, a term for a small type of this
a dam
100
His work got a good review in the Times of London in 1919: "New Theory of the Universe–Newtonian Ideas Overthrown"
Einstein
200
It's the word for a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other text
an epigraph
200
Hawaii's white sand beaches like Anaehoomalu Bay are mainly a composition of coral & these broken-up items
shells
200
An extremely talkative person who goes on & on & on as if they have no idea they are droning along on & on & on & on
a chatterbox
200
One of the 3 festivals that summoned Israelites to Jerusalem was Shavuot, celebrating the start of this agricultural event
harvest
200
After the 1994 election, she became Germany's Minister of Environment, Conservation & Reactor Safety, but a promotion awaited
(Angela) Merkel
300
A "heroic" one of these is 2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
couplet
300
German biologist Walther Flemming coined this term for cell division, not for the piggies on his own feet
mitosis
300
Among its meanings are intricate, a group of related buildings & some type of emotional problem
complex
300
Chinese emperors dictated the color of clothes, so Tang dynasty commoners stripped down to their funky-colored this
underwear
300
20-year-old Dirk Nowitzki began playing for this NBA team in 1998 & was still with them 20 years later
the Mavericks
400
Don't hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back
refrain
400
California sagebrush & coyote bush are good yard plants in L.A. because they are this kind of period "tolerant"
drought
400
It's an ancient manuscript that is the earliest form of a book; there is a Madrid one & a Dresden one
a codex
400
The Roman valued this art of persuasive speech, a necessary skill for great oratory
rhetoric
400
In 1725, 3 years after Book I of the "Well-Tempered Clavier", this 4-decades-old man composed his "Easter Oratorio"
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
500
Consonance is repetition of consonant; this other "nance" is repetition of vowels
assonance
500
The only insect to migrate across an ocean is called the wandering this, like an aircraft type; it covers miles without a wingflap
glider
500
It's the diacritical mark seen here over the letter "A"
circumflex
500
An ostrakon was a piece of pottery with a name on it; if your name was on enough ostraka, you got this punishment for a 10-year term
exile (or banishment)
500
Vroom! He showed off his 25-HP, 4-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression engine on the cusp of 40 in 1897
(Rudolf) Diesel