A Name for It

Chevron vocation hollyhock aureole
Euphony avocation mourning dove

What does this word mean and that word mean?
The students call their questions down the table.

They could look it up but oftener now they ask.
When we are lucky enough to be asked,

supplying answers is one of the things we elders are good for,
or if not answers then at least gradations

of . . .
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