When is this tournament going to end?! It's April now. It needs to reset.

I'm putting in a claim for the monthly badge now. I'm currenty 19th for the month of March.

The badges were rewarded; however, the standings list is still calculating for last month.

In this current set, the definition was 'The quality of being adequate or suitable'. The correct answer was 'unsatisfactoriness'.

Is that right? I was looking for the closest synonym and didn't consider that an antonym might be the right answer.

14. Hoodoo

Your answer: bring back luck

Surely it should have been bad luck?

In the current set the "gulden" is stated as the currency of Suriname. From the CIA World Factbook: "in January 2004, the government replaced the guilder with the Surinamese dollar, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency basket". Other references online also say the currency is now the Surinamese dollar.

8. Inoculate

Your answer: give or apply (medications)

give or apply (medications) is the definition for "dispense"

The correct answer was insert a bud for propagation

"Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency", answer was given as "chilly".

An incorrect definition:
13. A quadrilateral with no parallel sides
Your answer: trapezium

Trapezium was the only quadrilateral for me to choose from, but a trapezium has one pair of parallel sides!

That's one of those British/American confusions. Compare Oxford and Webster.

Teeny typo

15. A fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets

Your answer: cholecarciferol

Should be Cholecalciferol

This seems to be missing something.

Quote:

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1. Someone who spells words
Your answer: poor speller

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5. Postmortem
Your answer: surgical removal of a body part or tissue

surgical removal of a body part or tissue is the definition for "cutting_out"

The correct answer was discussion of an event after it has occurred

Strictly, yes, but somewhat ambiguous.

A tricky one this hour that I got wrong:

9. Fit tightly and fasten
Your answer: tag on

tag on means "fix to"

The correct answer was coapt

"Fix to" seems quite similar, at least in connotation, to "fit tightly and fasten." Anyone agree/disagree?

Thanks, Rob.

3. Immobilize

Your answer: stop or halt

stop or halt is the definition for "delay"

The correct answer was make defenseless

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Not to sure what the symbol is doing in the surname, is she related to Prince?

*holding up a finger* I object. Strenuously.

15. Circulate, move around

Your answer: mingle

mingle means "be all mixed up or jumbled together"

The correct answer was troll

Twosleepy, I had exactly the same thought and strenuous objection when I got the same question wrong.

I doth protest loudly!

Mark

This one made me laugh:

Dumpiness
Your answer: the property of having a plump and round body

the property of having a plump and round body is the definition for "chubbiness"

The correct answer was a short and stout physique

Between the two choices, it's funny that shortness would make you dumpy!

You beat me to it! I was just about to post almost the exact same thing!

Speaking as one who fits the description, it is indeed the shortness that makes one dumpy. Tall people can carry the weight better.

12. Die
Your answer: succumb

succumb means "consent reluctantly"

The correct answer was buy the farm

Huh ?
Please explain !

"To buy the farm" is a slang term that I first came across when reading memoirs about WWII. A shot down pilot would be said to have "bought the farm", "gone West" or "gone for a Burton". All meant that he had died, usually in combat.

Thanks Liz.. i grew up with two WW2 ex RAAF guys around, and heard "gone west" and "gone for a burton" regularly.. in fact going back to early nursing days and working in a repatriation hospital, I think "gone west" may date back to WW1.
I have never encountered the "buy the farm" - obviously didn't make it as far as Australia !

Disaccord

Your answer: failure to conform

failure to conform is the definition for "nonconformity"

The correct answer was be different from one another
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Seems to me that being "different from one another" means the same thing as "nonconformity".

desist

choose no to consume
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Probably should be:
choose NOT to consume
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Also, one of the choices was
"be discouraging or negative about"
which seems to fit as well.

I got this right, as all the other choices were worse, but this sounds more like the definition of "friendly fire" to me:

10. Fratricide

Your answer: fire that injures or kills an ally

Friendly fire and fratricide could be matched on a Mind Melt, but I don't see how this entry on Word Wizard could be correct.

It must be a true Americanism, because I've heard it all my life. In fact, people sometimes change it up to be funny: bought the business, bought the whole shebang, and also, just plain "bought it". I've never, though, heard "gone for a burton" (is that a trade name for something, like cigarettes?) or "gone west", either. When something's getting worse, we say it's "going/headed south", and I suppose it could used "gone south", but here it doesn't necessarily mean dead, just badly off. I love words! :0)

I was going to say that "bought the farm" was probably North American, I have definitely heard it in Canada, but it might have originated south of the border I believe the Burton reference might be to a brand of ale, but I'd have to dig around to find the source of that belief.