Rhymes for OVERTURES

• be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

• make certain of

• protect by insurance

• take out insurance for

• characteristic of maturity

• having reached full natural growth or development

• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

• (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination

• fully considered and perfected

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• develop and work out fully in one's mind

• become due for repayment

• cause to ripen or develop fully

• grow old or older

• cause to ripen and discharge pus

• a small book usually having a paper cover

• make certain of

• be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

• give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain

• That which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

• That which belongs to you (plural); the possessive second-person plural pronoun used without a following noun.

• Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.

• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

• make (substances) hard and improve their usability

• be or become preserved

• a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

• free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

• free from danger or risk

• not likely to fail or give way

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• financially safe

• get by special effort

• cause to be firmly attached

• assure payment of

• make certain of

• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

• furnish with battens

• an industrial city in western France on the Loire River

• a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height

• any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

• a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure

• form the contours of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• face and withstand with courage

• continue to live and avoid dying

• undergo or be subjected to

• last and be usable

• persist for a specified period of time

• continue to exist

• qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

• anything that serves as an enticement

• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

• provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

• a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

• travel via a detour

• open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

• one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

• secure in or as if in a berth or dock

• come into or dock at a wharf

• secure with cables or ropes

• the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• a statute in draft before it becomes law

• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• express as a number or measure or quantity

• have certain dimensions

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

• a regular patron

• the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

• the act of putting something in working order again

• yet to be or coming

• a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened

• the time yet to come

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

• bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

• effective in or looking toward the future

• (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

• a clear and telling mental image

• a situation treated as an observable object

• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

• the visible part of a television transmission

• a graphic or vivid verbal description

• a typical example of some state or quality

• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• show in, or as in, a picture

• a three-dimensional work of plastic art

• creating figures or designs in three dimensions

• create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• a period of time assigned for work

• an indefinite period of time

• an illegal daily lottery

• the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

• writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

• That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

• a group of followers or enthusiasts

• the body of people who lead a group

• food remaining from a previous meal

• United States poet (1869-1950)

• housing available for people to live in

• a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel

• the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion

• United States actress and singer (1896-1977)

• an act of gracious kindness

• an advantage to the benefit of someone or something

• an inclination to approve

• a feeling of favorable regard

• souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

• promote over another

• consider as the favorite

• treat gently or carefully

• bestow a privilege upon

• A female person or animal.

• That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

• a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• ask for or request earnestly

• command solemnly

• the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

• an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base

• the act of mixing together

• a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• put at risk

• a light shade of blue

• of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

• color azure

• something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners)

• something that strongly attracts attention and admiration

• add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb

• modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished

• make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes