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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-17-2005 04:36

Nice one Andy ... qualm and quodlibet are correct. I have to give the prize to Mackenzie though - not only did he get all but two but he got them annoyingly quickly! : o )

Jun-17-2005 04:46

I'm going to have to try to make this one harder, because you're all too smart.

All answers beginning with 'R':

1) n. a teller of anecdotes (Fr)

2) n. the habit of relapsing into crime.

3) n. straightness: rightness: integrity.

4) n. a change to a better state of mind.

5) v.t. to repay (an action): to avenge: to repay (a person for): to retaliate on.

6) v.t. to plunder: to ransack: to disarray: (of a hawk) to seize only the feathers of: to injure.

Bonus: n. genre or still life pictures, esp. of sordid subjects.

Jun-17-2005 07:59

1) raconteur
2) recidivism
3) rectitude
4) resipiscence
5) requite
6) ravage
Bonus) rhyparography

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