Leap Year

End of Year Tips

Directions: This being a Leap Year, each answer word will rhyme with either ‘leap’ or ‘year.’ (An answer may appear more than once.)  

Examples: “________, ________” said the Roadrunner. Answer: Beep. Beep, 

She may be ‘healthy, wealthy, and wise’ but is still ‘a _______ mortal.’ Answer: Mere.

1. From Robert Frost: “. . . .and miles to go before I ________.”  

2. There you are again, late, bringing up the _________.

3. Have you seen my new ________? It’s great on the off-road trails!

4. Put it in high ________ and it goes!

5. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also _______.” (Biblical quote from Galatians 6:7)

6.  Las Vegans ________ for Knights, Raiders, Aces and more.

7. A United States Vice President is often called the ________.

8. ________ Abby, a columnist who offers advice on various topics.

9.  Lots of dirt on the front porch.  Bring me a broom.  I’ll ________ it off.

10.  I don’t get it!  It’s ‘as _________as mud!’

11.  Sometimes it seems like we’re ‘between the devil and the ________ blue sea’.

12.  That sentimental musical is bound to make you shed a ________ or two.

13. “Tomorrow and tomorrow . . . ________s in this petty pace from day to day . . .”

14. “There’s no need to _______, Underdog is _______.”

15.  It was such an emotional, happy experience, I felt that I was going to  ________ for joy.

16.  From “The Sound of Music”: “Doe, a _______, a female . . .”

17.  You’ll be in a _______ of trouble if mom finds out what you did last night!

18.  An iconic _______, in Santa Cruz County severely damaged by storms.

19.  We better _______ close tabs on that new accountant.  He seems a little shady.

20.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Listen my children and you shall ______.  Of the midnight ride of Paul __________.”

Answers:

  1. Sleep
  2. Rear
  3. Jeep  
  4. Gear  
  5. Reap  
  6. Cheer  
    • Veep
    • Dear  
    • Sweep  
    • Clear  
    • Deep  
    • Tear
    • Creep
    • Fear, Here
    • Weep
    • Deer
    • Heap
    • Pier
    • Keep
    • Hear, Revere

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