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The adjective agrarian is used to describe something that is related to farmland or the economy that is concerned with agriculture.
A cornucopia is a large quantity and variety of something good and nourishing.
When there is a dearth of something, there is a scarcity or lack of it.
If someone, such as a writer, is described as having fecundity, they have the ability to produce many original and different ideas.
Frenetic activity is done quickly with lots of energy but is also uncontrolled and disorganized; someone who is in a huge hurry often displays this type of behavior.
If something, such as an idea or plan, comes to fruition, it produces the result you wanted to achieve from it.
The adjective halcyon can also refer to a period that was highly prosperous and golden.
An idyll is a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, peaceful, and has no problems.
Something luxuriant, such as plants or hair, is growing well and is very healthy.
A metropolitan area contains a very large city.
A pastoral environment is rural, peaceful, simple, and natural.
A profusion of something is a very large quantity or variety of it.
If something proliferates, it grows and spreads quickly so that there is a great abundance of it.
A rustic setting is rural or placed in the country.
A yokel is uneducated, naive, and unsophisticated; they do not know much about modern life or ideas because they sequester themselves in a rural setting.
Adj.
bucolic
byoo-KOL-ik
Context
The farm we visited on our class trip was bucolic and lovely, with sheep, cows, and horses pleasantly wandering through the rolling, green fields. The rural and bucolic landscape that day filled my head with compelling images of calm, pretty farmland and shepherds’ tending their flocks. Poets often mention such bucolic settings to invoke the idea of a simple and satisfying life lived in the country.
Quiz:Try again!
Which of the following lines of poetry describes a bucolic setting?
“I love a sunburnt country, / A land of sweeping plains”—Dorothea Mackellar
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”—Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The street light / At his corner / Shined just like a tear”—Langston Hughes
Bucks Frolic A bucolic setting is where wild bucks can frolic.
Examples
Up for sale is the 2,000-square-foot house that belonged to dairy farmer Yasgur, along with a larger farmhouse, a barn and 103 bucolic acres about 80 miles north of New York City.
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The Washington Post
"Even bucolic towns get massive amounts of air pollution, which is out of their control, from states to their west," Walke says. . . . Even the rugged beauty of Acadia National Park in Maine is clouded by dirty air: "It's at the end of the national tailpipe," he explains.
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Men's Health
"It's a very pretty piece of land," said Olney resident Michael D. Dobbs. . . . "It has a creek that runs through it. Parts of it are wooded, and parts of it are rolling and bucolic, and it's a pocket where deer and fox and other animals can have a little safety place."
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The Washington Post
Cut off from next-door Berlin by the wall, few areas had suffered more from Germany’s long division than this bucolic countryside of rivers and lakes, where my father used to take me on his boat.
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Newsweek
“Cowherds” are part and parcel of a bucolic or “rural” setting.
Word Theater
Green Acres The show's introduction features a bucolic scene of farmland.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!
