September 2020

Question 1

euphonious

Answer 1

pleasing to the ear

Question 2

mellifluous

Answer 2

Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly.

Question 3

limn

Answer 3

To describe or depict by painting or drawing or words.

Question 4

sinistrality

Answer 4

left-handedness

Question 5

esurient

Answer 5

hungry; greedy

Question 6

bedlam

Answer 6

a place or scene in uproar; there was bedlam in the streets

Question 7

zenith & nadir

Answer 7

top of sphere, bottom of sphere

Question 8

dextrality

Answer 8

right-handedness

Question 9

quixotic

Answer 9

1: foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
2: CAPRICIOUS, UNPREDICTABLE

Question 10

prescience

Answer 10

Foresight, foreknowledge

Question 11

recalcitrant

Answer 11

Stubbornly resitant, defiant to authority

Question 12

Escher sentence

Answer 12

Comparative sentence that seems to make sense but doesn’t

More people have been to Russia than I have

Question 13

epiphyte

Answer 13

A non-parasitic plant that grows on another plant

Question 14

metonymy

synecdoche

Answer 14

metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the throne for the monarch
synecdoche: where a small part of a character becomes the character (Rahel becoming a fountain in a Love in Tokyo)