English Words & Origins
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Clue: A vivid glowing flame
Clue: Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words
Clue: An elaborate or formal public speech
What is a formicary?
Klysmophillia is arousal from what?
Satan is an anagram of who?
What is the collective noun for swallows in the air?
What word for a traffic jam did Ross Perot invoke to describe legislative backup?
What M-word is defined as “a device that changes sound into electric current”?
Mageiricophobia is a fear of what?
The name of what military formation in which members are arranged diagonally has also come to mean a level of command or rank?
Cab’, as in taxi, is short for which word?
What is another common name for the word Calligraphy?
What word describes the minimum number of members required to be present for the proceedings of an assembly to be valid ?
Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?
Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?
What is philography?
What is a gnomon?
What is the plural on the word Mongoose?
What seven letter word is the name given to a territory surrounded by a foreign dominion?
Which phobia is the fear of heights?
What type of weapon is a Falchion?
What word links a group of whales with a group of peas?
What word in the English language has the most definitions?
COLLECTIVE NOUNS – A BARREN OF WHAT?
Word for slight of hand comes from the French for nimble finger?
Collective nouns – A group of beavers is what?
Collective nouns – A train of what?
WHAT 15 LETTER WORD CAN BE SPELLED WITHOUT REPEATING ANY OF ITS LETTERS?
WHAT M-WORD DEFINES ANYTHING THAT OCCUPIES SPACE?
WHAT IS THE ONLY WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT BOTH BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE LETTERS U-N-D?
Writing with light is the literal meaning of what word from Greek?
Collective nouns – A group of Deserts are called what?
Collective nouns – A Troubling of what?
WHAT ARAB CITY HAS A NAME DERIVED FROM A WORD MEANING “SANCTUARY”?
WHAT PUNCTUATION MARK IS DERIVED FROM THE LATIN WORD FOR JOY?
Name the word an anti mine device towed from bows of a ship?
Yoga (the meditation) is a Sanskrit word meaning what?
Collective nouns – a group of police officers?
Collective nouns – A wiggle of what?
WHAT ARE DESCRIPTIVE WORD COMBINATIONS SUCH AS BRUNCH, MOTEL AND SMOG CALLED?
WHAT SEVEN LETTER WORD DO ALL AMERICANS PRONOUNCE WRONGLY?
Old Arabic word for palm of the hand is what in modern sport?
You may remember the Alamo, but do you now what the word means in Spanish?
Collective nouns – a group of swans are called what?
Collective nouns – An Army of what?
WHAT CHEMICAL COMPOUND COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD FOR “PRIMARY”?
WHAT TWO-WORD TERM IS DEFINED AS “THE LOWEST POSSIBLE TEMPERATURE”?
On Quaker Oats what word is written on the scroll on the box?
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