Can We Crack These Malapropisms?

That sounds like a match! Hi-fi!

 

articulate, hortatory, something to do with?
Or may be the commencement is in a horticultural college which means "peroration" is suspicious.

 

They should employ you in all those covert three-lettered federal organisations with these amazing sleuthing skills. You could actually be spot-on here unless someone comes up with a more appealing word.

 

Exercise sheet

Spoiler

1) Though most drawn to the hard sciences, Hector studied poetry as an undergraduate and quickly learned to distinguish an anapest from a fractal.
anaphora

2) We were offered bratwursts or nothing, a classic Hobbesian choice.
hobson's choice

3) On “All Blues,” Miles Davis employs the Charmin mute to beautifully moody effect.
melodious?

4) Cordelia is a paragon of goodness and finial loyalty.
filial

5) The officers surrounded the square in a great show of consubstantial force.
constabulary

6) Resistant to change, Ethyl still used the Dobie Gillis system for transliterating Chinese.
translating?

7) Rodin’s The Kiss is a famous example of sculptural oscillation.
ostentation?

8) Some sailors complained of side effects when shipbuilders began using cortisone as a floor covering.
corticine

9) At her retirement party, Dr. Mounir thought of Wallace Stevens’s phrase, “valetudinary echoings.”
valedictory

10) The waiter’s lapel pin featured a tiny portrait of Sayid Maxamed Cabdille Xasan, an expression of sommelier pride.
Somalian

11) Feeling aggressive, the Crescent City grandmaster opened with the Queen’s Gumbo.
gambit

12) Never troubled by five o’clock shadow, Jimmy’s skin was still gibbous and youthful well into his forties.
glowing?

13) Just then a house finch elated on the lectern.
alighted

14) Hana cherished an inherited Netscape from the Edo period.
netsuke

15) In the stockroom, Alex was a remarkably productive worker, a regular Stalagmite, and his industriousness was rewarded.
?

16) The Hawaiian Islands are ideal for the study of ignoramus rocks.
igneous

17) Whenever he felt signs of an oncoming cold, Bill stepped into his organ box.
orgone box

18) The commencement address began humorously but built to a suitably horticultural peroration.
?

19) We tried to negotiate with Senator McConnell, but he remained intransitive.
intransigent

20) Though she was most proficient on guitar, Rosa was also a gifted lutefisk.
flutist

21) The Airbnb guests were querulous regarding the cloaca comforter.
?

22) Lillian and Louis set out on their road trip with an ample vibraculum.
curriculum?

23) A handsome and distinguished infantryman, Nigel was a member of the Grenadine Guards.
grenadier

24) The question, ruled the judge, fell outside the statute’s purveyor.
purview

25) When evaluating risk, investors often look at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Fallibility Index, a measure drawn on options prices for the next thirty days.
?

26) Talk turned to depth psychology, but the phrase laminal space never escaped the tip of Kayla’s tongue.
liminal space?

27) Making it past the imposing but venal sentry requires a small sop to Serbia.
Cerberus

28) The actor born Betty Joan Perske adopted a metronomic surname.
matrimonial surname

29) Her delicate face revealed all the linemen of piety and grace.
lineaments

30) The match went to five sets, leading to soreness in Björn’s quadrupeds.
quadriceps