Word Power (Quiz)

The Time of our Life

There's never enough time, or words to describe it. See how long it takes you to do the quiz. For answer, see next blog.

1. anachronism
a. brief interval
b. grandfather clock
c. thing misplaced in time

2. concurrent
a. occasional
b. simultaneous
c. In the nick of time

3. temporise
a. evade in order to delay
b. get up-to-date.
c. put on a schedule

4. ephemeral
a. short-lived
b. antique
c. improving with age

5. dormancy
a. incubation
b. curfew
c. state of inactivity

6. incipient
a. cyclical
b. just beginning
c. out of sync

7. equinox
a. when day is longest
b. when day is shortest
c. when day and night are the same length

8. protempore
a. In good time
b. ahead of time
c. For the time being

9. juncture
a. mid year
b. point of time
c. gap in the geologic record

10. erstwhile
a. past
b. present
c. future

11. dilatory
a. early
b. tardy
c. occurring at ever-widening intervals

12. moratorium
a. half a century
b. suspension of activity
c. clock tower

13. perpetuate
a. happen at the wrong moment
b. speed up
c. Make everlasting

14. horologe
a. astronomical calendar
b. timepiece
c. dusk

15. Olympiad
a. four-year interval
b. international date line
c. Greek sundial

16. estivate
a. speed
b. guess the time
c. pass the summer

Time Crunch

1. Better late than never.
2. Rome wasn't build in a day
3. History repeats itself.
4. Let bygones be bygones
5. Time and tide wait for no man
6. To everything there is a season