3. Thyroid

Your answer: located near the base of the neck

This looks very familiar, but still incomplete (and frequent).

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Incomplete definitions are only a problem when they lead to two answers cross-matching. I can almost always work out how they match, even if some of the answers feel incomplete or a little strange. I have just considered it part of the game. And it doesn't take that long - I usually score 28-30 in under 250 seconds, even when I feel I have agonized endlessly over a decision. (28 has happened a couple of times when there were two synonyms to match with definitions, and random guessing as to which went with which was required - now THOSE are frustrating!)

I think the incomplete definitions are much more of an issue in WW than in MM; you can't work the same process of elimination in WW that you can in MM. Vide bubblesfun's problem above -- I didn't consider that the answers might include a incomplete definition, and, thus, the answer was fairly obvious. But the choice she made, if it was an incomplete definition, was just as correct.

The incomplete definitions will shake out eventually, but, without the process of elimination available, there is the potential for confusion in WW.

Some definitions are more 'incomplete' than others. Most can probably be figured out with some thought, but others certainly can fit a wide variety of words. It looks like the ';' in some original definitions may have caused part of the definition to be lost when the database was constructed.

The problems will go away eventually, if they are reported and fixed in some way.

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Something's missing...

13. Height 30 inches
Your answer: common wallaby

Good one:

3. John M. Elston (JMElston)

Your answer: American FunTrivia player; Who Am I? editor; send me your comments & suggestions

German physicist; engineer; inventor of the mercury thermometer (Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit)
Russian Revolutionary; Communist leader; killed in Mexico (Leon Trotsky)
Spanish pro golfer; currently playing on the European Seniors Tour (Jose Rivero)
Romanian-born French playwright (Eugene Ionesco)
Trinidadian-born British journalist; TV newsreader (Trevor McDonald)

I put that in quite a while ago to give players a chance to know who to complain or comment to with their problems or suggestions.

I don't claim to be important, like the other names mentioned above.

Of course, with the once a day frequency, now, my name won't turn up that often. Still, when it does, everyone in the set gets to see it.

Thanks for the notice.

I just noticed this was in the wrong thread. Oh well...

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Not an error, but an interesting coincidence in the set I just had:

10 sty

snug trousers ending at the calves
a verse line having eight metrical feet
a pen for swine
a person of no influence
great and constant diligence and attention
give a spanking to

11 sty

wear away
resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
an optical device for obtaining interference fringes
an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
an enzyme involved in transamination
be in a state of action

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8. Type_B
Your answer: a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things is the definition for "circumlocution"

The correct answer was the blood group whose red cells carry the b antigen


I believe that Type B personality is more indirect, am I correct? If so, a fix is needed here to avoid this scenario.

9. Diethylaminoethyl_cellulose

Your answer: used for chromatography

Fairly easy to figure out, but another incomplete definition.

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This seems to be another incomplete definition:


When planning or deciding something

Your answer: consult

Another incomplete definition...

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3. Depresses the function of the thyroid gland

Your answer: thiouracil

Any very successful means of achieving a result
Your answer: collectivist

collectivist means "a person who belongs to the political left"

The correct answer was open sesame

Not sure about this one. Open sesame?

This is a paste from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary (although you can certainly find it elsewhere online):

open sesame [singular] British English
an easy way to achieve something that is usually very difficult

usage example:
A university degree isn't always an open sesame to a good job.

It's an anglicisation of "Open, Simsim" from "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves".

Teeny typo:

Play_a_joke_on

Your answer: subject to a palyful hoax or joke

Should be playful

Just did a big cutdown. Removed thousands of fish, chemicals, cows, bacteria, insects, etc.

5. Retarding_force
Your answer: oppose with equal weight or force

oppose with equal weight or force is the definition for "counterbalance"

The correct answer was the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid


These two are close enough synonyms that they should not come up in the same answer (counterbalance and Retarding Force)

I know that The Free Online Dictionary is the favored source of many of these words, but there are errors there which are apparently copied and pasted without checking. Here's one example:

"The semantic relation of being a manner of does something"

I honestly cannot say for sure how that is supposed to read, but it is exactly how it appears on the above-cited website...

Small typo...

11. Place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
Your answer: transplant

Foray seems to be the word of the hour! It was the correct answer to 1 question, an incorrect option for another, and appeared as TWO of the incorrect options for a third:

cause to arise

faience
bring on
regression
pulmonary plexis
foray
foray

There are 2 appropriate choices, and the more appropriate* (in my opinion), is marked wrong...

a church endowment

indecent exposure
shaytan
asset*
patrimony
stink out
gunny sack

I got that one wrong as well, and I agree with you.

Quote:

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9. Fratricide
Your answer: the act of murdering your own brother or sister

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Partially true. The murdering of your sister is 'sororicide'.

To that is free for leisure activities

Your answer: spare time

Surely 'To' is not the correct word in that definition.

Could someone explain this one to me?

15. A natural consequence of development
The correct answer was offset

I'm not saying it's wrong, just I don't understand the usage.

The only online dictionary I saw with this definition was this one:

http://www.freedictionary.org/?Query=offset

The synonyms listed for this definition seems to indicate that this meaning is in the sense of an offshoot or outgrowth, but I've never seen "offset" used like that. It's odd and confusing -- I don't know why someone would use "offset" in this context when there are many more accurate words to express this concept.

Quote:

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The activity of treating someone savagely or vicisouly
Your answer: brutalisation

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Typo- viciously

In the current set, the definition was a "Malay dagger with a curved blade".
I was looking for the answer of "kris" which is what I learned when I studied Malay.
I couldn't find it, so entered some other word I was unfamiliar with.
The correct answer was "crease",and nowhere am I able to find a definition of "crease" as a Malay dagger.
From Wikipedia: The kris or keris is an asymmetrical dagger indigenous to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. It is known as kalis in the southern Philippines. The kris is famous for its distinctive wavy blade, but many have straight blades as well. Both a weapon and spiritual object, kris are often considered to have an essence or presence, with some blades possessing good luck and others possessing bad.
I'm confused !

This dictionary seems to be the source of a lot of words over which I've often scratched my head. Not that it really answers your question, but at least it's a source...

http://www.freedictionary.org/?Query=crease

I suspect it's a bad transliteration into English.