General

Question 1

clitic

Answer 1

linguistics: not quite an affix, not quite independent words

Question 2

mooncalf

Answer 2

1. A daydreamer or absent-minded person.
2. A fool or simpleton.
3. A congenitally deformed person.

Question 3

leptodermous

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Having a thin skin

Question 4

saprogenic

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Causing or produced by decay.

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ectogenous

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Able to survive outside a host (as some bacteria and other parasites do)

Question 6

Hobbesian

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1. Of or relating to Thomas Hobbes or his ideas.

2. Grim, selfish, unrestrained, etc.

Question 7

Cacomorphobia

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fear of fat people

Question 8

marivaudage

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1. Affected writing style.

2. Banter, especially of flirtatious nature.

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Marinism

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A literary style marked by extravagant imagery, elaborate metaphors, etc.

Question 10

Cervantic

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Of or relating to Miguel de Cervantes, especially his satirizing of the chivalric romances.

Question 11

cremnophobia

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A fear of precipices or cliffs.

Question 12

ochlocracy

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Government by the mob; mob rule.

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aver

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to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.

Question 14

paucispiral

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Having few spirals or whorls a paucispiral operculum or shell

Question 15

Ankyloglossia

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also known as tongue-tie

Question 16

haecceitas

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a person’s or object’s thisness, the individualising difference between the concept “a man” and the concept “Socrates” (i.e., a specific person).

Question 17

koinonia

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is a transliterated form of the Greek word, κοινωνία, which means communion, joint participation; the share which one has in anything, participation, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, etc.

Question 18

elutriate

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To purify or separate, especially by washing or by straining.

Question 19

straiten

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1. To put into difficulties.
2. To limit or restrict.
3. To make narrow.

Question 20

demit

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verb tr.: To give up an office or a position; to dismiss.

verb intr.: To resign.

Question 21

impend

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verb intr.:

1. To be about to happen; to loom.
2. To threaten or menace.

Question 22

abjad

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a type of writing system where each symbol or glyph stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.

Question 23

rhotic

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English speakers’ pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified

Question 24

dromedary

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also called the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), is a large, even-toed ungulate with one hump on its bac

Question 25

even-toed ungulates

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ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne equally by the third and fourth toes

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odd-toed ungulates

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such as horses, bear their weight primarily on their third toes.

Question 27

artiodactyl species

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even-toed ungulates - include pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, llamas, alpacas, mouse deer, deer, giraffes, antelopes, sheep, goats, and cattle

Question 28

perissodactyls

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also known as odd-toed ungulates, are mammals characterized by an odd number of toes and by hindgut fermentation with somewhat simple stomachs. Unlike the even-toed ungulates, they digest plant cellulose in their intestines rather than in one or more stomach chambers. The order includes three extant families: Equidae (horses, asses, and zebras), Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses), and Tapiridae (tapirs), with a total of about 17 species.

Question 29

pate

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top of the head

Question 30

nape

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back of the neck

Question 31

subduct

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verb tr., intr.: To push or move below something.

Question 32

forswear

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verb tr., intr.: 1. To renounce something. 2. To commit perjury.

Question 33

rowel

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noun: A small spiked wheel at the end of a spur attached behind the shoes of a horse rider; used to goad a horse. verb tr.: To prick; to vex.

Question 34

agnostic

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noun: 1. One who believes that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable. 2. One who is noncommittal about something. adjective: 1. Believing that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable. 2. Noncommittal. 3. Compatible with many platforms: not limited to a particular software, technology, etc.

Question 35

googol

Answer 35

noun: A number equivalent to 1 followed by 100 zeros (10 to the 100 power)