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English Words & Origins

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What is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which we use to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed?

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Alibi

Which of the following is the correct spelling — dessiccated, desiccated, dessicated?

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Desiccated

What ‘p’ is to contaminate?

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Pollute

What ‘n’ is an old word for promontory or headland?

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Ness

An onomastician studies what?

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Names

Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?

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Vegetables

What is philography?

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Autograph collecting

Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?

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Cob

What is the origin of the word hoax?

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It’s believed to be a contraction of “hocus,” from the expression hocus pocus.

Parascopisim is what sexual behaviour?

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Voyeurism through bedroom windows
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