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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:

Jun-9-2005 07:08

1)Echelon
2)Eclectic
3)Effectual
4)Enlighten/Elucidate
5)Epigram
6)Esoteric

Jun-9-2005 07:37

Hmmm ... with the likes of Markie P and John Hale around, I'm going to have to make these harder!

5/6 Markie, though in truth you've picked a near perfect synonym for the one that's different. It was elucidate, as you correctly guessed, that I was looking for on no. 4.

Any takers on 3? It's a somewhat more formal word that effectual.

Jun-9-2005 08:05

3)Efficacy

Jun-9-2005 08:14

Hoorah for Cfm (though, if I was to be really pedantic, you've given me the noun, whereas I was looking for the adjective!) : o ) Efficacious it is.

Jun-9-2005 08:21

Well, thanks for not being too hard on me. :)

I can spell, I can punctuate (when I'm not completely overwhelmed by emotion), but parts of speech, diagramming, labeling, etc...HA!

Jun-9-2005 12:20

OK ... because you're flying through these I've done ten this time and made them a little bit harder (perhaps).

All answers beginning with 'F':

1)adj. would be funny: joking, or trying to be amusing, particularly at inappropriate times.

2)adj. affecting superior taste: over-nice: difficult to please: exacting in taste: excessively concerned with cleanliness.

3)adj. of or like fever: feverish.

4)n. Arab commando, esp. one involved in the conflict against Israel. (Ar)

5)n. a false appearance: a pretence: a mock-assault: a deceptive movement in fencing, boxing, etc. (Fr)

6)adj. wild: untamed: uncultivated: brutish.

7)v.i. to droop: to flap feebly: to grow languid or spiritless.

8)v.t. to feather.

9)adj. belonging to courts of law: used in law pleading: appropriate to, or adapted to, argument.

10)adj. economical in the use of means: sparing: spare: thrifty.

Jun-9-2005 12:36

*liked the list of 6 better*

1) ?
2) fastidious
3) ?
4) fedayee (sp?)
5) feint
6) feral
7) ?
8) ?
9) ?
10) frugal

Jun-9-2005 13:49

All right, Cfm : o )

Jun-9-2005 16:53

I give all CFMs answers plus:
9) forensis (latin: belonging to the forum), in English forensic.

Jun-9-2005 16:59

I got one right yes?