I just looked up "The semantic relation of being a manner of does something" and it gave the definition as
"convoluted gibberish".

Wiki defines it as "Troponymy is the presence of a ‘manner’ relation between two lexemes" which really explains it all, agreed?

Should be 'principals'

chanson de geste

Sorry, but this looks like french to me. Oy!

There are many foreign language words and phrases used in English. They're quite valid in the game.

2. Caught in European waters

Your answer: langoustine

An incomplete definition that has probably turned up here before.

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Apparently the incomplete definitions are all related to fauna and flora.

This one makes me mad:

4. Gratify
Your answer: indulge

indulge means "yield (to)"

The correct answer was feast

Say what? Even the FOD has "indulge", with "feast" nowhere to be seen. :0(

But if you look up Feast, you will find references to gratification. To feast is to experience something with gratification or delight. Maybe not the connection you think of, but it is there.

Okay, so "it is there", but isn't the point of the game to give the CLOSEST definition or word that fits the given item? If that is not the case, I'm playing the wrong game! "Indulge" and "feast" do NOT belong together as answers for "gratify". Period. And even put together, "indulge" is the closest.

Any definition is valid. How do you define the "closest definition"? Each entry has its own answer that appears among other answers. The answer will be whatever is matched up to the entry in the database, as I understand it. If another answer also looks close, then, yes, mention it here, but it's not the case that the answer given was wrong, just that another was also close.

I didn't say it was wrong; I said the two do not belong together as answers for that particular item.

Yes, but I also said that each entry has its own answer in the database. The game doesn't look for which is the closest match in each set. It's a coincidence that another word would be close too. I don't think they should be together in the same set either, but it's randomly generated.

I just had these two questions come up in the same quiz:

1 a distinguishing trait

vainglory
repugnance
speciality
hemisphere
talk of
slice

9 a distinguishing trait

dandle
go down
equilibrium
dispassionateness
rip up
specialty

The answer was "specialty" in both cases.

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One was specialty, the other was speciality - close but not identical!

Oh well... Nevermind.

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I do not think the brackets are really necessary.

If anything there should only be one set of brackets, starting at "the stitches" and ending at "sewing". Taking the sentence without the brackets gives "undo of" which makes no sense!

12. One who hesitates (uaually out of fear)

Your answer: vacillator

Typo: 'uaually' should be 'usually'.

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I would think these two terms mean more or less the same thing.

I would have thought that both denigrate and belittle have negative connotations that are not necessarily there for downplay. You can downplay the danger of the radiation in Tokyo, but that doesn't mean you are casting aspersions on it.

Informal terms for journalists
Your answer: penman

Should it be [term]?
And the answer plural? penmen

The final 's' is not required.

'in', not 'ins'.

Typo in the definition for "graft":

place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Of course it should be "the", not "athe".

Typo in the definition for "hemorrhage":

Flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels

"A" should be removed, or "vessels" made singular.

I vote for the singular, otherwise, what difference would there be from multiple ruptures (hemorrhages)?

One could use the singular word hemorrhage to refer to a single incident of bleeding whether it involves a single blood vessel or several of them in close proximity to each other. Still, the singular form is more appropriate, as it allows for a plural entry as well.

mehaul: the difference would depend on whether your HMO thought the first hemorrhage was a "pre-existing condition" ~~~

Devoice
Your answer: utter with tense vocal chords

The definition should read "vocal cords", not "chords".

Immovableness
Your answer: no capable of being moved or rearranged

The definition should read "not capable" instead of "no capable".