- If you wish to seem demure,
you will have to demur
less vociferously.
- Denote — see connote
- Any cool dessert
would taste great out here in the sandy desert.
- The prisoner tried to devise
a clever device
to help him escape.
- She thought her dog would die
after it drank that bowl of blue dye.
- He went from a dilemma
to a quandary.
- The conductor seemed discomfited
on the podium by the rude, discomforting
behavior of the visiting pianist.
- They kept their love affair discreet
by living discrete
lives.
- You will want a disinterested
[impartial] judge. An uninterested
[not interested] judge, however, is a liability.
- When asked to disassemble
his old jalopy, Charles agreed, seeming to dissemble.
What ‘H’ is a wretched or miserable dwelling Hovel
What ‘U’ is joblessness Unemployment
What ‘C’ is to consign someone to damnation Curse
What ‘C’ is to deviate from a straight line Curve
What ‘E’ comes after real – and before agent Estate
What ‘I’ means distinguished or renowned Illustrious
What ‘R’ is an elephant living apart from the heard Rouge
What ‘W ‘ is a woman practicing sorcery Witch
What ‘D’ is the style and layout of furniture and
decoration Décor
What ‘B’ is an animal’s hole in the earth Burrow
What ‘V’ is speaking so that your voice seems not to come
from you Ventriloquism
What ‘T’ is a sweet made of sugar, water and butter Toffee
What ‘Y’ is a howl of an animal in distress Yowl
What ‘P’ is the substance used to hold glass in window
frames Putty
What ‘J’ is the mingled noise like small bells Jingle
What ‘A’ is to take upon oneself Assume
What ‘A’ means to do with birds Avian
What ‘T’ is a drink of hot spirits Toddy
What ‘E’ means pleasing to the ear Euphonious
What ‘I’ is the striking of one thing against another Impact
What ‘H’ is to give out loud puffs of breath or steam Huff
What ‘F’ is a criminal deception Fraud
What ‘D’ is a form of depressurization Decompression
What ‘J’ is an unsettling blow, movement or shock Jolt
What ‘D’ is to present something false as true Deceive
What ‘H’ is protuberance on the back Hump
1 - An important person is a ____ fish. big cold
2 - If you have more important things to do, you have
____ to fry.
big fish
bigger fish cold
fish red herring
3 - Someone who drinks like a fish... is very thirsty. has a problem with
alcohol.
4 - If you are like a fish out of water, you are...
coping well.
struggling in an unfamiliar environment. unemotional.
5 - Something that distracts people is a...
cold fish.
big fish. red herring. bigger fish to fry.
6 - A strange person is a ____ fish. kettle of
cold queer
7 - An unemotional person is...
a red herring. a
cold fish. a kettle of fish. a big fish.
8 - If something is hard to categorize, it is...
a kettle of fish.
neither fish nor fowl.
a red herring.
9 - If someone is swimming with the fishes, they are...
very important in a strange
environment. dead.
10 - If something is fishy, it is... confusing. suspicious.
sci,
scio: to know Latin, scire: to
know conscious (adjective): aware,
having knowledge of oneself
scrib,
scrip: write Latin, scribere: to
write script (noun): handwriting,
something written
sent,
sens: feel, think Latin, sentire:
feel sentiment (noun): a thought
prompted by feeling
sequ,
secut, sue: follow Latin, sequi: to
follow sequence (noun): a continuous
series
sist:
to withstand, make up Latin,
sistere: to make a stand
insist
(verb): to be firm about something needed, to demand
soci:
to join, companions Latin,
sociare, socius: to join, a companion
sociable
(adjective): inclined to seek friendship, companionship
sol:
alone Latin, solus: alone, single solitary (adjective): being alone
solv,
solu, solut: loosen, explain Latin, solvere:
too loosen, release solve (verb): to
find an answer
spec,
spi, spic, spect: look Latin, specere: look, look at spectator (noun): a person who watches
spir:
breath, soul Latin, spirare: breathe respiration (noun):
breathing
stab,
stat: stand Latin, stare: to
stand
stature
(noun) - height of a standing body, importance of position
strain,
strict, string, stige: bind, pull Latin,
stringere: to bind or pull tight
constrict
(verb) - to squeeze, to make narrow
stru, struct, stroy: build Latin, struere: to build destroy
(verb): to ruin, to pull down
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The
word "typewriter" is one of the longest that can be typed using only
the top row of a standard keyboard. In case you're interested, the others are
"perpetuity", "proprietor", and "repertoire". The
longest word that can be typed using only the home row is "alfalfa".
No words can be typed using only the bottom row, because there are no vowels on
the bottom row.
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The
word slave comes from Slav, the name of a group of Eastern European peoples. In
antiquity, Germanic tribes captured Slavs and sold them to the Romans as
slaves.
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"Journal"
does not contain a single letter of the Latin word from which it is derived:
dies, "day." Among the intermediate steps in its development were the
Latin diurnus, the Italian giorno, and the French jour.
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The
longest word whose letters alternate hands when being typed on a QWERTY
keyboard is "authenticity".
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