1. What does it mean when someone speaks of an ARENOSE setting? bull-nosed sandy pertaining to the Aran Islands in Ireland airy

2. When Porky Pig and Billy Budd are called BLESILOQUENT, what trait of theirs is referred to? blessing people sounding blue or depressed sneezing while talking stuttering or stammering

3. What is one's garden doing when it's labelled CRESCIVE? being caressed filled with watercress growing crested

4. What part of the body does the adjective DERIC refer to? derriere skin big toe spleen

5. When one EXPISCATES something, what is the action spoken of? excavating expecting spitting investigating

6. A REAL tricky one! What is the meaning of FERACIOUS? (Warning: it's not the word you think it is!). wild fruitful gluttonous unkempt

7. What does a GORMLESS person lack? appendix prostate gland gall bladder brains

8. What is a HIANT orifice? gaping lofty echoing small

9. What do you do to someone when you IMMEW him? confine him put him among cats immunize him make him milk a cow

10. When a man has JENTACULAR thoughts, what's he thinking of? breakfast jumping jousting jokes

11. What kind of rule is a KAKISTOCRACY? by the constipated by the worst by madmen by the military

12. Someone has called the racetrack LUTACEOUS. What does he mean? it's muddy it's lemon-colored it's lute-shaped it's phosphorescent

13. Deserted houses are among the things labelled MUCID. Meaning... gluey musty feathery mouse-ridden

14. A part of a seashore is termed NAUFRAGOUS, meaning it causes... shipwrecks Naugahide to be made nausea anger in naive people

15. To OBVALLATE someone is to... wall him up make him obsolete invalidate him put him in a valley

16. Put a P before remorse and you get PREMORSE, meaning... premature remorse truncated conscience before Samuel Morse

17. What is a QUANTULUM? mini-quantum leap sea slug caterpillar small amount

18. What shape does RHABDOID refer to? rod pyramid sphere oblong

19. A SUCCEDANEUM is a... successful person substitute successor seed-sucker

20. When a man is called a THALIAN, chances are he's a... citizen of Thalia comic Northern Italian Southern Greek

21. To describe something as UGGLESOME is to label it as... seized by Uggles horrible adept at juggling always saying "ugg"

22. A VALETUDINARIAN is someone who... has poor health an experienced valedictorian is a long-time valet a valley dweller

23. A WRAW man is... unpolished angry savage scraggly

24. XYLOTOMOUS (no room for a Y word!) means... xylophone-playing woods-ruling forest-growing wood-cutting

25. Finally, what would a Catholic priest do with a ZUCCHETTO? eat it drink it play it wear it