word challenge

8/9/2019 Word Challenge

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No 3 letters Definition

1 ait An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

2 alb long white robe worn by a Christian priest

3 ane one

4 ava at all

5 ave expression of welcome or farewell

6 azo consisting of the divalent group

7 ben mountain peak

8 bey (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt

9 bis Twice

10 bod Alternative names for the body of a human being11 boi lesbian who dresses like a boy

12 bon good

13 bor neighbor

14 bot Botfly larva

15 brr

16 cad dishonorable man

17 cit pejorative term for a town dweller

18 col high mountain pass

19 cor exclamation of surprise

20 dal decalitre

21 daw an archaic, dialect or petit name for a jackdaw

22 deb A young woman making her debut into society.

23 def cool

24 del differential operator

25 dex dextroamphetamine

26 dit stop something from happening

27 dol unit of plain intensity

28 doy beloved person

29 ebb flow back

30 els


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31 elt young female pig

32 ens

33 eon longest division of geological time

34 erg ergometer

35 eta seventh letter in the Greek alphabet

36 ewt newt

37 exo excellent

38 fap drunk

39 faw gypsy

40 fay to fit or join closely or tightly; fairy or sprite

41 fem feminine

42 fet fetch43 fie used to express dissaproval

44 fon to compel

45 foy loyality

46 gan go

47 ged pile

48 gib to fasten with a wedge of wood or metal

49 gie to give

50 gon geometrical grade

51 gor god

52 guv government

53 hao monetary unit of Vietnam

54 hap luck

55 haw hawthorn berry

56 hes

57 hoc latin for this58 hom sacred plant of the Parsee

59 hon honey

60 jin chinese unit of weight

61 jol party

62 kip to sleep


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63 koa hawaiian tree

64 kow cow

65 lac 100 000

66 lew tepid

67 lex system or body of law

68 lox to load fuel tanks of spacecraft

69 med doctor

70 mho ohm

71 moa large extinct flightless New Zealand bird

72 moi me

73 mol mole

74 mon man75 mot girl or a young woman

76 moy coin

77 mun to maun

78 nae no

79 nan grandmother

80 neg photograhic negative

81 nob person of wealth or social distinction

82 nog short horizontal timber member

83 nom name

84 nos no

85 nur wooden ball

86 nus 13th letter in the Greek alphabet

87 oba a Yoruba chief or ruler

88 ope open

89 oxo oxo90 pir sufi master

91 poi a Hawaiian food of taro root cooked

92 pol political campaigner

93 pom pommy

94 poo defecate


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95 pye pie

96 rax to stretch out

97 reg large expense of stony dessert terrain

98 reh salty surface crust on the soil

99 rep sales representative

100 ret to moisten or to soak to promote bacterial action

101 rex king

102 ria a long narrow inlet

103 sha be quiet

104 sib blood relative

105 sop concession to pacify someone

106 sup supine107 tad a small amount; slightly

108 tau 19th letter in the greek alphabet

109 taw to convert skin into leather

110 tel tell

111 tet teth

112 tis to

113 tix tickets

114 tom male cat

115 tor high rocky hill

116 tub to open round container

117 tum tummy

118 uta side-blotched lizard

119 var unit of reactive power

120 vin French wine

121 vis power; force; strength122 wai water

123 wem wame

124 wot to wit; to know

125 wye Y-shaped pipe

126 yak Tibetan ox


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127 yar nimble

128 yex hiccup

129 zel turkish cymbal

130 zoa zoon

131 zol cannabis cigarette


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No 4 letters

1 abbe

2 abed

3 acer4 agin

5 alum

6 azon

7 barb

8 bast

9 bate

10 bawn11 berm

12 bile

13 bong

14 brad

15 brae

16 brie

17 byre

18 cade19 cann

20 carb

21 chaw

22 cine

23 coed

24 corm

25 cusp

26 dalt

27 deet

28 deli

29 delt

30 demi


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31 dene

32 ding

33 ditz

34 dona

35 dork

36 dram

37 drat

38 dray

39 dreg

40 duce

41 dyne

42 earl43 eave

44 ecru

45 erst

46 fand

47 fane

48 fico

49 fley

50 frig

51 fyke

52 gane

53 gaud

54 geal

55 gite

56 goth

57 grog58 grum

59 guar

60 hade

61 hist

62 iter


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63 keno

64 kier

65 kore

66 koru

67 lase

68 leat

69 lien

70 lilt

71 ling

72 loge

73 loid

74 lube75 luce

76 luge

77 luna

78 lune

79 mand

80 maun

81 meed

82 meld

83 mesa

84 mewl

85 mico

86 moer

87 nape

88 narc

89 nare90 nide

91 oast

92 pand

93 pate

94 peon


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95 piny

96 pita

97 quod

98 rand

99 rasp

100 ream

101 redd

102 rima

103 roan

104 roum

105 rout

106 rube107 ruse

108 scot

109 scud

110 sere

111 shaw

112 shay

113 shea

114 sift

115 silt

116 slob

117 slop

118 slub

119 snag

120 spar

121 spay122 suet

123 suit

124 tace

125 tain

126 tane


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127 tare

128 taro

129 tarp

130 tate

131 teal

132 tern

133 thou

134 tore

135 torr

136 twat

137 twee

138 urao139 vair

140 vant

141 vare

142 vive

143 vrow

144 wain

145 wast

146 watt

147 weal

148 whin

149 wice

150 wist

151 wite

152 wort

153 yodh154 zori


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a member of the French secular clergy in major or minor orders

in bed

any tree or shrub of the genus

against; opposed to

aluminum

type of drawing paper

a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck

fibrous material

to jump violently from a perch

fortified enclosurethe shoulder of a road

inclination to anger

the deep resonant sound especially of a bell

a slender wire nail with a small barrel-shaped head

a hillside especially along a river

bree ; broth

a cow barn

juniper tree

direct a ship's steering

carbohydrate

chew

cinema

educating both sexes together

a rounded thick modified underground stem base bearing membranous

a point of transition

to foster child

insect-repellent

delicatessen

deltoid muscle

half


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narrow wooded valley

to make a ringing sound

silly scatterbrained person

Spanish lady

nerd; jerk; dick

small amount of a strong alcoholic drink especially whisky

to damn

a strong cart or wagon without sides

the most undesirable part

leader

the unit of force in the centimeter-gram-second system equal to the force

a member of the British peerage ranking below a marquess and above a viscountoverhaning edge of a roof

beige

erstwhile

to try

temple or shrine

worthless trifle

to frighten

offensive

fish trap

gangue

article of cheap finery

congeal

self catering holiday cottage

a person who wears mostly black clothing, uses dark dramatic makeup, and often has dyed black hai

alcoholic liquorsurly

drought-tolerant legume

angle made to the vertical by the plane

used to attract attention

cottage


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a game resembling bingo

vat in which cloth is bleached

ancient greek statue

stylized curved pattern used especially in carving

to emit coherent light

trench or ditch

the security interest created by a mortgage

a spirited and usually a cheerful song or tune

slender food fish

a small compartment

to open a lock using celluloid strip

lubricating oil

pile

a small sled ridden in a supine position and used especially in a competition

type of large American moth

the part of a plane surface

man

must

a deserved reward

to blend

bench

to cry weakly ; whimper

marmoset

slang word for the womb

the back of the neck

narcotics

nostrilnest

a usually conical kiln

valance

brain

infantryman


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adjective of pine

any of several fiber --yielding plants

jail

a monetary unit of Botswana

to rub with something rough

a quantity of paper

to make things tidy

long narrow opening

having the base color (as red, black, or brown)

room

a crowd of people

a nave or inexperienced persontrick

a person of Scottish descent

to move along swiftly

dried up or withered

small wood

chaise

tropical African tree

to remove the coarser particle with a sieve

mud deposited by moving water

lazy and untidy person

to splash or to spill

to draw out and twist

to hew, trim, or cut roughly or jaggedly

pole used as a ship mast

to remove the ovaries from a female animalhard fat obtained from sheep

set of clothes designed to be worn together

tasset

tinfol used in backing mirrors

taken


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the seed of a vetch

plant with large edible rootstock

sailor

small taft of fibre

small short-necked dabblers

gull-like seabird

used when talkin to one person

torus

unit of pressure

vulva

too sentimental

type of mineralfur probably russian squirrel

vanguard

rod

long life

woman

to transport

be

unit of power

raised mark on the skin by a blow

gorse

wise

to know

blame

plant

tenth letter in the Hebrew alphabetJapanese sandal


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No 5 letters

1 addle rotten; confused

2 alder shrub or small tree

3 amble to walk leisurely4 ascot A cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin.5 beryl a mineral consisting of a silicate

6 besot to make stupid or muddled

7 blare to sound loudly and harshly

8 blas indifferent or bored through familiarity9 blear to make (the eyes) sore or watery

10 blurt to utter abruptly and impulsively

11 boron a trivalent metalloid element found in nature

12 boson a particle (as a photon or meson) whose spin is zero

13 brace to fasten tightly

14 brank to walk with swaggering gait15 brede braid

16 bugle

17 burly strongly and heavily built

18 caber a young tree trunk used for tossing as a trial of strength19 carom a shot in billiards in which the cue ball strikes each of two object balls

20 chary unwilling to risk doing something21 chine a cut of meat including all or part of the backbone

22 chives the long thin green leaves of a plant with purple flowers.23 copse a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees

24 cubeb woody vine25 daine to condescend

26 debar to prevent

27 dcor style in which a room or house is decorated

28 deign to agree to do something

29 denim a firm durable twilled usually cotton fabric woven with colored warp

30 doyen dean

31 eland large antelope of South African

any of a genus (Ajuga) of plants of the mint family


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32 elver Young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried.33 fecal

34 fleam surgical instrument35 fural furfural

36

glansa conical vascular body forming the extremity of the penis

37 gorse Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub38 gorse prickly yellow-flowered shrub

39 grith security, peace or protection

40 inert

41 laity all the members of a religious group apart from the priests42 lamby resembling a lamb43 latte coffee made with hot milk

44 manor large country house and its land45 mocha kind of strong dark coffee

46 monad any fundamental singular metaphysical entity

47 moten to mote; tiny speck

48 mudge to speak vaguely

49 niche a habitat supplying the factors necessary

50 noddy tropical tern with a dark plummage

51 ofter

52 outre bizarre

53 ovule rudimentary seed54 petit of little or lesser importance

55 poise A state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium.56 pyric pertaining to burning

57 quine quean

58 radon a heavy radioactive gaseous element

59 roach Eurasian freshwater fish60 ruble

61 scamp mischievous child

62 scone small plain cake baked in an oven or on a griddle63 scree slope of loose shifting stories

64 scrum a usually brief and disorderly struggle or fight


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65 seder a Jewish home or community service

66 shard a small piece or part

67 sidle to cause to move or turn sideways

68 sloop a fore-and-aft rigged boat with one mast and a single jib

69

spawlsplit

70 speer to seek after71 spiny Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc72 spire A tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building73 stash to store in a secret place74 stere To stir.75 stile style76 strow to strew; to scatter about

77 suave smooth and sophisticated in manner78 sumac a material used in tanning and dyeing

79 surge to rise and fall actively

80 swash rush of water up a beach81 swill to drink great drafts of sth

82 swine contemptible person

83 terse neat and concise

84 titer the strength of a solution or the concentration of a substance

85 trank short form of tranquilizer86 tride old spelling of tried

87 trite to rub, wear away

88 tubal

89 twill a textile weave

90 ulcer a break in skin or mucous membrane

91 umbra a shaded area

92 upend to rise on an end93 vaunt to describe or to display boastfully

94 weber unit of magnetic flux

95 withe A small wooded hollow.96 wreak Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence97 yeard to bury


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An old man came out and ambled over for a chat.

Nancy braced herself for the inevitable arguments.

Banks were chary of lending the company more money

Chives taste like onion and are used in cooking

All five men were debarred from entering France for three years.

Travis called after her, but she didn't deign to answer.


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He has money stashed away in the Bahamas.

The crowd surged through the gates.

He does nothing but swill beer all day.

Leave her alone, you filthy swine!

Derek's terse reply ended the conversation.

Her remarks sounded trite and ill-informed.

He promised to wreak vengeance on those who had betrayed him.


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No 6 letters

1 abrade to scrape away by a friction

2 bindle dull or expressionless3 broach to introduce topic for a discussion; to reveal sth unpleasant

4 camber to curve upward in the middle

5 chaise light horse drawn carriage; a long chair with a back that can be upright for s

6 chroma saturation

7 clevis to split

8 cravat scarf; a wide piece of loosely folded material that men wear around their ne

9 curdle to congeal as if by forming curds; to become thicker

10 dingle A small wooded hollow

11 durgah tomb of a muslim saint

12 enigma an obscure speech or writing

13 floret a small flower

14 gamine a girl who hangs around on the streets

15 gentoo grey-backed penguin

16 juster reasonable

17 marshy like a marsh18 nutate to exhibit or undergo

19 obtuse mentally slow

20 oracle shrine of an ancient god

21 papist usually disparaging

22 pelota a kind of game

23 peruse examine; to read something in a careful way

24 proser writer of prose

25 rabble disorderly crowd of noisy people

26 radish

27 recuse to refuse, reject

28 sacrum last bone of the spine

29 shrike any of numerous usually largely gray or brownish oscine birds


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30 skycap one employed to carry hand luggage at an airport

31 sleave tangled thread

32 sodden dull or expressionless

33 supine lying flat on one's back

34 tauten make or become tough

35 welkin the vault of the sky

zester a small utensil for peeling zest


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I broached the subject of his past.

itting

cks

Milk may curdle in warm weather.

The neighbours regarded him as something of an enigma.

She lean forward to peruse the document more closely


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No Idioms Meaning

1 Flatfoot A policeman

2 Come to pass to happen; to occur

3 Come down hard on to scold or punish strongly

4 Come hell or high waterNo matter what happens; whatever may come

5 Cold shoulder to act towards a person with dislike or be unfriendly

6 Fair and square Without cheating; honestly

7 No great shakes Mediocre; unimportant

8 On the outs Not friendly; having a quarrel

9 Flush it to fail something

10 Tripped out incoherent; illogical

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Example

What does Joe do for a living? --He is a flatfoot

Strange things come to pass in troubled times

The principal came down hard on the boys for breaking the window

Grandfather said he would go to the fair, come hell or high water

Fred cold shouldered his old friend when they passed on the street.

He won the game fair and square

Joe Catwallender is no great shakes.

Mary and Sue were on the outs

I really flushed it in my math course

It was hard to make sense of anything Max said yesterday; he sounded so tripped out

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