February 2018

Question 1

Preternatural

Answer 1

1. Existing outside of nature

2. Inexplicable by ordinary means; especially : psychic

Question 2

Divest

Answer 2

1. To deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title
2. To undress or strip especially of clothing, ornament, or equipment
3. To take away from a person
4. Rid, free

Question 3

Tucket

Answer 3

1. A fanfare on a trumpet

Question 4

Blench

Answer 4

1. To draw back or turn aside from lack of courage : flinch

Question 5

Spavined

Answer 5

1. Affected with swelling

2. Old and decrepit : over-the-hill

Question 6

Logomachy

Answer 6

1. A dispute over or about words

2. A controversy marked by verbiage

Question 7

Carp

Answer 7

1. To find fault or complain querulously

Question 8

Embargo

Answer 8

1. An order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports
2. Stoppage, impediment; especially : prohibition

Question 9

Mnemonic

Answer 9

1. Assisting or intended to assist memory; also : of or relating to a technique of improving the memory
2. Of or relating to memory

Question 10

Instauration

Answer 10

1. restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation

2. An act of instituting or establishing something

Question 11

Recuse

Answer 11

1. To disqualify (oneself) as judge in a particular case; broadly : to remove (oneself) from participation to avoid a conflict of interest

Question 12

Adust

Answer 12

1. Scorched, burned

Question 13

Nuts

Answer 13

1. Enthusiastic, keen

2. Insane, crazy

Question 14

Frolic

Answer 14

1. To amuse oneself : make merry

2. To play and run about happily : romp