Bad Tempers
Peace by Pieces
1st of All, A Riddke to Solve, and A Letter, C? That one reaslod. That's an Order, Easy as a Jackon 5 song, absent Michael and Janet.
A Couple of Couples' Couplets
100
The word could mean clothed in silks or covered in a hardf outer layerl, so you should take your afternoon constitutional along Bston harbor to see one illustrious exaxampleB
What is clad?
100
Comprised of a prefix that means "between" and a root that means "place / placement," this verb is what peacemakers do, even though they don't necessariy go anywhere physically.
What is intercede?
100
With great interest and enthusiasm, you might listen as...
What is avidly?
100
His jokes were dark and bitter, most ironic,
But her sarcasm ran heart deep, her crush _____.
What is sardonic?
200
This adjective usually describes one's ijpressively strojgn defenses or resources, either physically, like the root suggests a castle's outer walls would be, or metaphoircally, like the willpower of those who train for marathons.
What is formidable?
200
One of the causes embraced by the late Princess Diana of Britain was the clearing of landmines, a form of _______ placed just below the surface of roads and fields in combat zones, many of which always remain after land wars and canb threaten anyone, including curious children at play, walking or passing by that way for decades or longer.
What are munitions?
200
A thick stick heavy at the end, used as a crude weapon to stun and then lift into nets fish basking the shallows
What is a bludgeon?
200
(DAILY DOUBLE)
So when he said, his voice gone quiet, quivering, the mocking less ______,
"It hardly is ______ , I must have fallen sick,
Or maybe it's St. Valentine who likes to play a trick,
And with his younger sibling, that early April Fool:
Trip my tongue up, make word poor, but
I think you're really cool, and--"
What is formidable?
What is conceivable?
300
Times of Rebellion? Many people worry about this presidential election for its possible effects on American democracy itself. Only one other election was so fruaght, that of 1860, leading first to Lincoln's election with less than 50% of the vote, and then just a couple weeks later to the secession or quitting of the United States by South Carolina, first _____ state of the several that defected after the elction before coming together as the Confederacy and starting a ciivl war just four months after the vote.
What is a renegade?
300
Hate crimes are a series of related ______, passed by Congress and state legislatures, that seek to add more severe penalties for crimes against people or property where hatred of and bigotry toward other people for certain classes of identity--race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and others--is part or all the motivation of the criminal in attacking thre victim.
What are statutes?
300
In a state of restriction and/or solitary imprisonment, such as isolation or quarantine....
What is confinement?
300
"Stop right there," she said, "I'm feeling sort of queasy,
This sudden sick of ______, you've made me really dizzy."
What is vertigo?
400
Social linguists study how an individual's verbal style--expression thorugh language, particularly when spoken rather than written--reflecfts psychological phenomena, like personality, beliefs, education and culture, etc. Research shows that those who most often claim honesty and truth-telling identities rather than offer factual arguments are more likely to tell falsehoods; for example, the US President with the highest documented number of false statements is a ______ to those who value fact-based arguments. Though he sayts news media is corrupt and dishonst, that his political enemies are conspirators against him, and that only information he report is trustworthy, he usually does this in defense of a falst statemeht he made earlier and which the media are correcting. Doubling down on false staments, he defends the falsehoods most often with the clause "believe me."--since facts do not support the case, he depends on trust instead.
What is a rogue? Who is a rogue?
400
The midday announcement by radio of VJ (Victory over Japan) Day on August 12, 1945, signaling the surrender of Japan and thus the end of World War II, a conflict begun by brutal fascist aggression and which had caused such misery the world over, including tens of millions of deaths, was during the work week. Even so, it caused a weary but ecstatic American population to drop whatever they were doing and engage in acts of unplanned ________ , as people everywhere took to the streets to celebrate. This unstaged/unplanned photograph, taken by a journalist in New York, is one of the most famous images in American history, although its subject--a Navy sailor grabbing and deeply kissing a dental nurse in the street, though she was a total stranger to him and did not consent--is a lot more controversial today. Our values have changed, of course, but surely we can still imagine the joy most Americans felt that day.
What is jubiliation?
400
Rather than a large diving bird, famous forvarious appetite, hooked beak and somewhat ugly or even menacing appearance when drying its wings...
What is a cormorant?
400
And for some reason not his own, he found in this a hope!?? Oh no!
The culture is too blame: I mean, that brute we workship, Romeo,
In just one day declared his life a ruin, a rotting ____
Because fair Rosy dumped him quickly, cruelty her purpose,
But in the eve of that same day meet Juliet,
And free her of her parents' Paris purpose:
To marry hero Romeo! Was that a safer bet?
What is carcass?
500
Despite their ridiculous hats and the fact they are as much a draw for tourists as protectors of the Queen, Beefeaters are in fact active duty soldiers, guarding Buckingham palace, each stationed on ______ duty at the gates and interior doors.
What is a sentry?
500
As an idealist, my hope is always that by talking to one another, respecting each other's points of view, listening to and learning from rather than fearing and hating that which is different from us, by trying to be not only polite and respectful but also warm, kind, and ____ , as generous in our giving of gifts of the heart as we are gracious as in our receiving such gifts from others, our world could know a greater and longer peace than ever before. But sadly, as a student of history, I think human nature too consistent in its use of foce rather than understanding to resovle conflicts.
What is cordial?
500
Is actually the less used of the two ideas by fisherman in isolated parts of the glove, even if neither method is easy for us in North America to picture in our most creative of moments--indeed, we might not even credit the ideas as other than ridiculous.
What is conceivable?
500
Ah yes, those lovers starcrossed, Shakespeare didnt mean for us to see thier tragic illness,
Their teengage passions too much in bloom
Withering, collapsing, too quickly, their stillness--
Or Romeo--that psycho! And Juliet--so desperate!
Their case was most severe, their families too exceptional-
How could we view them ever after as
Loving as love should be t its very best, love forever,
That picture of perfected love _______ has lasted too long. it's date is long expired.
What is perpetual?