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Daily Vocabulary Quiz
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Blaise Joshua
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Jun-7-2005 23:57
OK ... as there are so many readers and writers here, we'll see if this is popular ...
I'll post a list of dictionary definitions and see if you can provide the word. I'll try to balance between making it too hard and making it interesting. I'll try and make it so that, even if you don't one right, you'll at least have heard the word before. For each quiz, all answers will begin with the same letter:
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jstkdn
Well-Connected
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Jun-8-2005 07:56
6= critic
YAY.....I got one. Or not? Please, say I just got one??? Please, pretty please????
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Blaise Joshua
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Jun-8-2005 08:00
Ummm ... sorry Jstkdn ... I'd really love to say you've got it, but you haven't. It's close, but there's a definite difference. Sorry! : o (
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G K Chesterton
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Jun-8-2005 08:22
1.?
2. Castigate
3. Copious
4. Clique
5. ?
6. Connoisseur
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John Hale
Yarn Weaver
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Jun-8-2005 10:17
1. Caprice
2. Castigate
3. Circumlocution
4. Clique, or a Cult
5. Condescend
6. Connoisseur
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Lady Grey
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Jun-8-2005 10:17
1) Conversion
2) Critique
3) Cirmcumlocution
4) Clique
5) Cede
6) Connoisseur
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Markie P
Well-Connected
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Jun-8-2005 10:43
1)Caprice
2)Castigate
3)Circumlocution
4)Clique
5)Capitulate
6)Connoisseur
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Blaise Joshua
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Jun-8-2005 10:52
Hey ... John Hale's the man with 6/6. The answer to (4) was clique. I had a feeling this would be up John Hale's street : o )
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Blaise Joshua
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Jun-8-2005 10:53
'D' is coming up, just as soon as I'm back in my office ...
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Blaise Joshua
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Jun-8-2005 13:52
OK ... all answers beginning with 'D':
1) adj. (chiefly of a man) of good appearance and manners: elegant: courteous: confident, charming and well dressed. (Fr)
2) adj. failing in duty. – n. one who fails in or leaves his duty: an offender: a person lacking in moral and social sense.
3) n. a leader of the people: a popular and factious orator.
4) n. deceitful behaviour: doubleness, esp. in conduct and intention: insincerity: double-dealing.
5) (mus.) adj., adv. and n. Letting the sound die away, marked > on a musical score. (It)
6) v.i. to depart from the main subject: to introduce irrelevant matter.
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cfm
Nomad
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Jun-8-2005 14:27
1) debonair
2) derelict
3) demagogue
4) devious
5) diminution
6) digress
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