I can picture the wordbot trying to cram two words into the space allotted for one. The hyphen must have been the lubricant to make it slip right in.

I doesn't really matter what information you find in other dictionaries, for this game you have to live with the (often slightly 'off') definitions and spellings used in the dictionary in the game. It is not on the FunTrivia site, so we cannot amend it, and the task of removing by filter everything that someone doesn't agree with would take up far too much of Terry's time to be worthwhile. Once you accept the oddities as part of the quirkiness that gives the game its charm, it's all a lot more fun. And learning the words and definitions here is a big help in Mind Melt!

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(giggles) - well, I meant I wanted to start a protest with the IT people at work, not FT, as I like the game just the way it is.

Speaking of the "IT guys", the last one I talked to was named "Guy".
Okay, (I) found that amusing, but perhaps I need to get out of the office more often ...

"11. Corporation
Your answer: a body of people doing the same kind of work

a body of people doing the same kind of work is the definition for "occupational_group"

The correct answer was slang terms for a paunch"


...Really???

My father had quite a large corporation. He claimed it was all muscle. So yes, really, lol.

An unfortunate group of answers because both seem to be correct: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporation


(But perhaps that's why we say Fat Cats! )

The business sense of corporation is more than just people working together - it implies a formal, usually legal, designation of a particular group. From memory, the group of people who work together is used as a definition for vocation (which I dislike every time I have to click it, since I think that term implies a calling, as its Latin root suggests) and also for colleagues, as well as occupational group. Those terms that do have exactly matching definitions in the dictionary used for the game will nt appear in the same set.

corpus (the root word) is latin for "body" - which can mean a body of anything: literal works, medical/physical, legal, religious and business-wise. But, as Chavs noted, it was an unfortunate coincidence that two seemingly equally likely answers were in the same set. Oh well, that's how it goes some days : )

'periodic' would probably be a better word.

1. Loathing
Your answer: intense aversion

intense aversion is the definition for "repugnance"

The correct answer was hate coupled with disgust

Right from dictionary.com
loath·ing
noun
strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion

Another example of 'the right answer is often wrong'

8. Nitrazepam
Your answer: a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person is the definition for "downer"

The correct answer was a hypnotic and sedative drug of the benzodiazepine type

So Nitrazepam isn't a 'downer'...wait a minute. Yes, it is.

This may already have been posted here but I'll put it up anyway:

The doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable. That should be 'IS' I think.

Problem with Word Wizard. It's stuck and has been for a couple of hours

ie, it's counting down the minutes, but stuck on the one game from a couple of hours ago

The reset problem is known; Terry will get to it as soon as he can. Please no further reports

From this hour's game:
12. The act of hitting vigorously
Your answer: pound
pound means "the basic unit of money in Lebanon"
The correct answer was knock

From the thesaurus on my dictionary:
knock
verb
1 he knocked on the door: bang, tap, rap, thump, pound, hammer; strike, hit, beat.

Another fifty-percenter.

This is from this hour's Word Wizard



I actually think formalize is a better answer.

Get ready for this one.

Offering goods and services for sale
Your answer: advertizement

advertizement means "a public promotion of some product or service"

The correct answer was supply

I got the same word twice this hour. Does that happen much? I've never seen it before. Not a problem but...remarkable?

4. Hoariness -- a silvery-white color

6. Hoariness -- great age (especially gray or white with age)

It's unusual - I've played a lot of games, and only remember it happening twice to me.

Yeah but...

1. Dashing_hopes
Your answer: an act that does not achieve its intended goal

an act that does not achieve its intended goal is the definition for "nonaccomplishment"

The correct answer was an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

I was disappointed when I didn't get this one right because it didn't achieve my goal.

A body of people doing the same kind of work

Your answer: project

project means "transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another"

The correct answer was vocation

The word you read as a noun rather than a verb would refer to a group of people working on he same task, not just the same kind of work. Vocation is definitely a more appropriate match.

10. A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall

Your answer: canon

Shouldn't the word be 'canyon'?

It's actually missing the ~ over the first n.

"cañon" is an alternate spelling, and I suppose the system doesn't like the tilde, so it doesn't include it.

Aha! I see other people have had the Canon/Canyon conundrum too - I was just coming to mention it myself. Could it be made canyon if the system won't do the "squiggle"? Since canon without accent is, well, a canon and most definitely NOT anything to do with dry rivers and what not

This game draws on an external source, which means that its imperfections just have to be learned and lived with, if not loved. Filters can be, and have been, applied to remove certain classes of words from being used on a family-friendly site, but they are still there in the original database being used. Single entries with spelling errors and typos and slightly inaccurate definitions just come through. They're part of the game, as I see it.

With the variety of spellings used, and the numerous definitions they include, my eyes caught this one first and didn't even look at the other choices. I still may have stumbled.

A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies)
Your answer: booty

booty means "goods or money obtained illegally"

The correct answer was bootee