A recent “Jeopardy” featured a category titled “Shapely Adjectives.” In this week’s Vaughan’s Vocabulary I feature five answers given by Alex Trebek. The last two answers are from me.
See how well you do in this week’s Vaughan’s Vocabulary, “Jeopardy”-style. Remember, the category is “Shapely Adjectives” and you’ll express your answers in question-form.
1. “Pisciform means shaped like one of these creatures.”
2. “Alveaged means having the shape of one of these insect dwellings, be it vaulted or honeyconed.”
3. “Describing a type of mirror, this six-letter word means having a surface curved outward.”
4. “An object is campanulate if it’s in the shape of one of these noisemakers.”
5. “It means rounded and maybe swollen, or relating to certain flowers, like the tulip.”
6. This is the general term for describing the shapes of such things as leaves, pills and caskets.
7. “A polygon having three sides.”
Answers: What is a fish? What is beehived? What is convex-shaped? What is bell-shaped? What is bulbous? What is oblong? What is triangle-shaped?
Editor’s Note: Dr. Don Rodney Vaughan is the pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church near Eupora and is on the faculty of East Mississippi Community College, Golden Triangle Campus. Contact him at dvaughan@eastms.edu.
