2020 June

Question 1

Quark

Answer 1

A subatomic particle carrying a fractional electric charge

Question 2

Frangile

Answer 2

Fragile; brittle

Question 3

Pithy

Answer 3

Succinct

Question 4

Exclave

Answer 4

A portion of territory completely surrounded by other countries or regions

Question 5

Linchpin

Answer 5

A vital person or thing to an organization

Question 6

interstice

Answer 6

A space

Question 7

Axiomatic

Answer 7

Unquestionable

Self-evident

Question 8

credenza

Answer 8

Sideboard

Cupboard

Belief

Question 9

Scantling

Answer 9

A set of standard dimensions

A piece of lumber

Question 10

Placate

Answer 10

Pacify

Question 11

Innocuous

Answer 11

Neither harmful nor offensive

Question 12

Aspersion

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Spraying

Sprinkling of holy water

Question 13

Wangle

Answer 13

To manage to obtain by persuading or cleverly manipulating someone

To contrive

Question 14

Foil

Answer 14

To thwart

Question 15

Inoculate

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To treat with a vaccine

To immunize

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Orthogonal

Answer 16

Of or involving right angles

Statistically independent

Question 17

Draconian

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Harsh

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Ambrosia

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Nectar

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Occlusion

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Blockage

Question 20

Chronophotography

Answer 20

An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era

Question 21

Antipode

Answer 21

The direct opposite of something else

Question 22

Hypnagogic

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Referring to the state immediately before falling asleep

Question 23

Incursion

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Sudden or brief attack/ invasion

Question 24

Undergird

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To secure or fasten from the underside, especially by a rope or chain

To provide support or a firm basis for

Question 25

Potation

Answer 25

A beverage A drink

Question 26

Legerity

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Physical or mental quickness Nimbleness Agility

Question 27

Panoply

Answer 27

Array

Question 28

Otolaryngology

Answer 28

Study of diseases of the ear and throat

Question 29

Tentative

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Provisional | Hesitant

Question 30

Cadastre

Answer 30

Land register | Land registry

Question 31

Regale

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To supply lavishly To entertain

Question 32

Portage

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Of or relating to nautical travel

Question 33

Illusory

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Based on an illusion; not real

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Swain

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A young lover or suitor | A country youth

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Unwonted

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Unaccustomed Unusual

Question 36

Supercilious

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Arrogant

Question 37

Atoll

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A ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral

Question 38

Dismissive

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Feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration Contemptuous

Question 39

Coprophile

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A feces-loving organism A person whose sexuoeroticism hinges on fantasies and/ or sexual acts involving feces

Question 40

Somniloquy

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Sleep talking

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Abattoir

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Slaughterhouse

Question 42

Inveigle

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To persuade via deception or flattery

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Salient

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Most noticeable or important

Question 44

Palindrome

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A word, phrase or sequence that reads the same backward as forward (Madam / nurses run)

Question 45

Abstemious

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Not self-indulgent

Question 46

Diatribe

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A forceful and bitter verbal attack

Question 47

Jape

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A practical joke

Question 48

Valediction

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The act of saying farewell

Question 49

Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interpret

Question 50

Telemetry

Answer 50

The process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument