English Words & Origins
Are you an etymology enthusiast? A grammar guru? If you think you have some [sic] trivia skills, now's not the time to feel tense. Period.
Sacred carvings is the literal translation of what word?
MAGNUS HUSS (A SWEDE) COINED WHICH WORD?
Collective nouns – a mustering of what?
Collective nouns – what profession gather in a bench?
WHAT ENGLISH WORD COMES FROM LATIN FOR SHEATH FOR A SWORD?
What word for unthinking patriotism is derived from the name of one of Napoleon’s admirers?
DOWN, HUSK, TRACE, TRIP ARE ALL COLLECTIVE NOUNS FOR WHAT CREATURE?
Scientists took the word quark from which authors work?
Collective nouns – A bale of what?
Collective nouns – A nye is a group of what birds?
Collective nouns – what’s a group of photographers called?
WHAT IS THE GERMAN WORD FOR POISON?
What does Don Quixote’s sidekick Sancho Panza’s last name mean in Spanish?
COLLECTIVE NOUNS – AN OBSTINACY OF WHAT?
Synonyms are words with he same or nearly the same meaning. What are heteronyms?
Collective nouns – A bloat of what?
Collective nouns – A parcel of what?
Collective nouns – which creatures are a clamour or building?
WHAT IS THE LATIN WORD FOR LIQUID PRODUCED BY THE FICUS ELASTICA?
COLLECTIVE NOUNS – A CONVOCATION OF WHAT?
Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.
Collective nouns – A Business of what?
Collective nouns – a romp is of what animals?
Collective nouns a rhumba of what?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE GREEK WORD KOSMETIKOS, FROM WHICH WE GET THE WORD COSMETICS?
WHAT IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME FOR THE FIVE ELEMENTS WHICH MAKE UP GROUP VII OF THE PERIODIC TABLE?
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”. One example is tremendous.Name one of the others.
Collective nouns – A Chatter of what?
Collective nouns – A shiver of what?
THE FRENCH SAY BIS – WHAT WORD DO THE ENGLISH USE?
WHAT IS THE ONLY WORD IN ENGLISH THAT ENDS IN MT?
Dublin theater manager John Daly was credited with inventing and introducing what word into the English language during the late 18th century, by scrawling it in bathrooms and other public places?
There are over 1000 recognised slang words for what?
Collective nouns – A cloud of what?
Collective nouns – a smuck of what?
THE WORD ATHLETICS COMES FROM THE GREEK ATHLOS MEANING WHAT?
WHAT IS THE WORD (DERIVED FROM MALAY) FOR UNHUSKED RICE?
COLLECTIVE NOUNS – A DOWN OR HUSK OF WHAT ANIMALS?
To what does the word ‘corned’ as in corned beef refer?
Collective nouns – A congress or flange of what?
Collective nouns – a streak of what?
THE WORD CALENDAR COMES FROM LATIN AND MEANS WHAT?
WHAT IS THE WORD TAXI SHORT FOR?
COLLECTIVE NOUNS A GROUP OF GELDINGS IS CALLED WHAT?
Tungsten gets its name from the words ‘heavy stone’. But in which language?
Collective nouns – a descent of what?
Collective nouns – a streak of which creatures?
THE WORD ELECTRICITY COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD FOR WHAT?
WHAT IS THE WORD WHICH MEANS EITHER THE STRENGTH OF AN EARTHQUAKE OR THE BRIGHTNESS OF A STAR?
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