1. Practice Listening #4
Where Good Ideas Come From

2. (n) a movement in the 18th
century that advocated the
use of reason in the
reappraisal of accepted ideas
and social institutions
Enlightenment

3. (n) a creation (a new device or
process) resulting from study
and experimentation
Innovation

4. (adj) of or relating to marriage
or to the relationship between
a wife and husband
Conjugal

5. (n) climates and landscapes
that surround living things
Environments

6. (adj) pertaining to biology or to
life and living things
Biological

7. (n) a figure of speech
comparing to unlike things
without using like or as
Metaphor

8. (n) a moment of sudden
revelation or insight
Epiphany / Eureka

9. (adj) concerned with effect or
style of writing and speaking
Rhetorical

10. (n) apparatus consisting of a
box designed to maintain a
constant temperature by the
use of a thermostat
Incubator

11. (adj) elaborately or
excessively ornamented
Florid

12. (n) an arrangement of parts or
elements
Configuration