mehaul, I agree with you (even though I disagreed about the typo!). Could be that it is just an eggheaded linguist type of thing (guilty), but I like discussing obscure items in this thread. It's not so much about getting the database fixed, which is not a possibility right now, it's about having fun discussions. I guess they're not fun for all, but I figure if you aren't interested don't join in.

Stiffled giggle (SG) as opposed to an outright LOL. Eggheaded/smegheaded linguist's linguini is a fine repast/repartee. Is pleading guilty in this case a form of expressed retention of a sort?
So, why the specification of airship rather than just ship or ocean vessel in the answer?

7. Stentor - a speaker with an unusually laoud voice

typo - loud

If you say laoud loudly, it sounds even louder than loud does. I had to laugh.

Mark Anthony: "I come not to ...", an unusually laud voice. looney_tunes, shouldn't that be laough?

I think it can only be said with certain southern accents.

I don't know, I think Eliza Doolittle could have said "laoud" quite effectively.

5. Blank
Your answer: keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning

Usually it refers to keeping the opponents from SCORING, which ultimately will cause them to lose. It usually means the same as a shut-out. No score.

dictionary.com
20. Informal . to keep (an opponent) from scoring in a game.

Word Wizard didn't award me a letter - I've just played and met the criteria. Hiccup?

Oh never mind - my Gold Membership expired. I've sent a transfer. How can I find out if it's arrived?

And I thought the FT program notified Gold Members 7 days before the membership expires each year? If so, it didn't.

OK (sorry to be so dense with technical stuff), I've got an email from my bank saying that the amount has been transferred to my paypal account (another minefield for me) and willl be processed by 5th October.

Does that mean it automatically goes to FT, or do I then have to go back to my paypal account and transfer it to FT myself?

Help!

9. A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
Your answer: drive

drive means "(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)"

But DRIVE also means:
17. to strive vigorously toward a goal or objective; to work, play, or try wholeheartedly and with determination.


The correct answer was avidity
which means
1.
eagerness; greediness.
2.
enthusiasm or dedication.

Pick one. It's a toss up.

Not sure that this match makes a lot of sense- excitement usually does not imply protest, or even disturbance.

Just wrong, wrong, wrong to have two acceptable and interchangeable answers:

10. Pinprick
Your answer: cause a stinging pain

cause a stinging pain is the definition for "twinge"

The correct answer was a minor annoyance

Those two answers aren't exactly interchangeable - one is a verb (twinge matches with cause a stinging pain) and one is a noun (pinprick matches with a minor annoyance).

I do disagree, however. I feel pinprick can be used as a verb, just as prick. Twinge is also a noun. So both are both. Too confusing and should be avoided together.

Here is the question and the answers:

estrangement from god

colloquy
lower respiratory tract
wickedness
tit for tat
roisterer
dispatch

The correct answer was "wickedness".

I am definitely "estranged" from god, but I don't consider myself "wicked"!

That's like an atheist saying that love of god is insanity.

I would strike this question.

I needed to give a little feedback on this one, the first time I've done so.

Chevy

Typo:

Hyphen is not necessary.

Don't like this one:

7. A mental pain or distress
Your answer: disquietude

disquietude means "feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable"

The correct answer was sting

I got the same one wrong.

I think something has gone wrong with the syntax in this definition:



The answer was "troponymy".

I thought the same thing, but figured it must be me. I read it a few times, which took time, but it still didn't make much sense to me.

Lee

A troponymy of 'to respond' (I hope):
I respond to your post by typing like this. ---or---
I respond to your post in the most emphatic way I can. Both are ways of 'does (or doing)' something with the same verb but to different outcomes or methods.
Another try: to drink:
John can get to drink by sipping at something or John can get to drink by guzzling at a gallon container. In both cases John does something (drink) but does them in different ways.
To go from here to there you can walk, crawl or run.
To look at the moon you can squint or use a telescope.
To learn you can read a book or watch a documentary.
To teach you can be a martinet or you can sugarcoat everything.

The assemblage of the site's definition could be better, it is hard to wrap an understanding around and thusly possess it, but it is a true statement of what a troponymy is.

Please, disagree with this in a troponymic manner if you are wont.

From Wikipedia:
Noun troponymy
1.(semantics) The semantic relation between troponyms.
Then same source:
Noun troponym (plural troponyms)
1.(grammar) A verb that indicates more precisely the manner of doing something by replacing a verb of a more generalized meaning.

It is easy to see the troponym part of the concept. The troponymy part needs a little extension of belief.


Edit: to return the thread title to it's original state. I think changing the thread title is frowned upon. How did you pull a thread posting of over a year ago to Re: to in this thread?

I've no idea how the thread title was changed. It certainly wasn't my doing.

If you click on the (Re: Windswept) to the right of the title on your post, it will take you to that Winswept posting you responded to (Last time?)

The quality of being slow to understand
Your answer: dulness

should of course be 'dullness'

Honestly, I searched the internet, and found none of the choices as a meaning:

3. sough

-cause to smell or be smelly
-an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
-surrender, as a result of pressure or force
-loss of color from the hair
-introduce into an environment
-something won (especially money)

All I could find is related to sounds, and the word "sigh"

*sigh*

I can pull the most tenuous of links out of that, twosleepy, and still it doesn't make much sense. I think you were right to pull it up. 'Sough' as a noun can mean a rumor, so I suppose "introduce into an environment" can be used in the context of starting a rumor, but as I said, it's rather tenuous, and at any rate, here it needs to be a verb, and my suggestion is used as a noun. What did the game say the meaning was?

I didn't dare to find out....