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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-22-2005 02:29

All answers beginning with 'W':

1) n. refuse: a waster, esp. a profligate: a neglected child.

2) n. a raised streak left by the blow of a lash.

3) adj. cheerful: pleasant: attractive.

4) adj. dried up, thin, shrivelled.

5) n. a spectre: an apparition, esp. of a living person: a think, pale person (fig.).

6) adj. twisted or turned to one side: not in the right direction: expressing displeasure or irony (fig.): perverse, distorted (fig.).

Bonus: adj. fuddled (with drink, drugs, etc): dazed: dizzy: blurred, woolly, vague.

Jun-22-2005 03:21

2) welt
4)wilt
6)wrong

Jun-22-2005 03:27

Sorry! None right I'm afraid, though welt is a pretty close synonym. Any advance?

Jun-22-2005 03:28

1) waif?
3) winsome
5) wraith
6) wrenched
bonus: woozy

*Hoping it's safe to come out of hiding now the N words have gone :-)*

Jun-22-2005 03:54

Mr Smith: 2/4 of those attempted and the bonus is correct! Waif and wrenched are wrong, however.

Jun-22-2005 04:04

1.)wastrel
2.)weal
4.)withered
6.) writhe

Jun-22-2005 04:27

Well done Mackenzie: wastrel and weal are correct, but sadly withered and writhe are not. So that leaves, let me see, just (4) and (6) to be solved.

Jun-22-2005 06:49

4) wizened
6) wry

Jun-22-2005 07:45

Nice one Double Agent ... that wraps them all up.

Jun-22-2005 08:46

And finally ... all answers beginning with 'X', 'Y' or 'Z' (and in no special order:

1) n. a form of mental delusion in which a man believes himself to be a beast.

2) n. the double veil worn by Muslim woman in public, the eyes only being uncovered (Ar).

3) (slang) n. a raw recruit: a teenage loafer: a lout.

4) n. a surgeon's instrument for scraping bones.

5) n. an inordinate attachment to things foreign.

6) n. the spirit of the age (Ger)

Bonus: adj. proceeding by inquiry.