Word Links

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1. What is the link between the word drawing-room and 'drawing'? It was the room where you exhibited your most valuable drawings and paintings The link is not with drawing but with withdrawing It was the room where young girls could sit and make drawings without being disturbed It means: room where people drew up offical contracts, documents etc.

2. What linguistic link is there between 'a fundamentalist', 'a fund-raiser' and 'a foundering ship'? They all in one way or other are bottom-seekers They all are fond of something. They all try to find something They all have ties with a foundation.

3. True or false? The term 'tonnage' comes from the number of casks or barrels(tuns) a ship could store ? True False

4. Which Italian word means small and can either be a small flute or a 'small waiter' (lift-boy) ? piccino petito piccolo meschino

5. What sort of protection would an umbrella give you if the word were still used in its original historical sense? Protection from shadow Protection from heavy rains Protection from strong winds Protection from strong sunlight

6. A dumpling is a pudding , more or less globular and generally enclosing fruit. Which character from a nursery-rhyme - quoted by Alice - is also 'short and thick' and traditionally represented as an egg? Answer: (Two rhyming bisyllabic words. No hyphen.)

7. Which of these herbs has a link with the sea in its name itself? dill (anetha) rosemary (ros marinus) parsley ( petro-selinon) marjoram (majorana)

8. What kind of berry may have derived the first part of its name from an alternative form of the French groseille: 'gozel' to which -berry was added? Answer: (One Word)

9. What (apart from the similarity of the consonant-pattern) is the similarity in meaning between 'to grin' and 'to groan'? In both cases you kind of distort your face Both verbs suggest a kind of crying sound Both verbs suggest gnashing of teeth They are actions meant to frighten by teeth-baring

10. What is the link between a penguin and the Yorkshire Peak Pen-y-Ghent? Pen means son of in both cases :son of Gwynne and Son of Ghent Pen means pin-shaped; pin-shaped non-flying bird and pin-shaped mountain of Ghent Pen means black; penguin= black and white Pen means head in both cases