JMElston
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Where should errors/corrections/questions etc. for Word Wizard quizzes be submitted? There doesn't seem to be an obvious place on the Word Wizard page for comments/corrections to be entered. Thanks.
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CellarDoor
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I'd also like to know. I understand that these questions are generated differently from the others, and correcting problems or removing problematic questions may be difficult or impossible depending on how it's run, but if there's anyway to fix a problem it would be much appreciated. Just now the word "Godlenly" came up, defined as "in golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully." I'm pretty sure "Godlenly" has to be a typo!
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mike32768
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"Godlenly" - that's a good one! 
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Bruyere
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Cleanlinessly isn't close to Godlenlieness?
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Julia103
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I can't answer the original question about corrections for the Word Wizard quiz, but I googled "godlenly" and found it listed on three on-line dictionaries on the first page of results:
Websters Online Dictionary, The Online Dictionary from Datasegment.com and The Free Online Dictionary.
All with the same or similar definition. So if it's a mistake it's been picked up widely.
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slipnslide
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I'm inclined to believe that its a mistake. Two of the three dictionaries listed claimed the Webster's 1913 Dictionary as a source. I googled the 1913 dictionary and discovered that it is in the public domain and has been "HTMLicized". I include the link to the 'G' section. Notice that neither the word "godlenly" nor the word "goldenly" appears in the text. However, "goden ly" does appear, but it is out of alphabetical order being placed between "golden-eye" and "golden-rod". The spaces and dashes are included in the dictionary. I wonder if the entry for "goden ly" was meant to be "golden-ly" which would explain its placement. The mystery deepens.....
The Online Plain Text English Dictionary
Edited by slipnslide (Thu Apr 05 2007 06:11 PM)
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happyness162
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I just finished a Word Wizard in which the clue "cetacean, or sirenian" had the "correct" answer of "mutilate".
Huh?
Oh, and someone got a 15/15 for "knowing" that.
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mike32768
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Quote:
I just finished a Word Wizard in which the clue "cetacean, or sirenian" had the "correct" answer of "mutilate".
Huh?
Oh, and someone got a 15/15 for "knowing" that.
You're assuming everyone gets the same questions... is that true of the Word Wizard?
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peachy_1
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Quote:
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I just finished a Word Wizard in which the clue "cetacean, or sirenian" had the "correct" answer of "mutilate".
Huh?
Oh, and someone got a 15/15 for "knowing" that.
You're assuming everyone gets the same questions... is that true of the Word Wizard?
I don't know if everyone gets the same questions, but I had that one, and I was definitely not one of those who chose "mutilate" as a correct answer for 15/15!
Sure am glad to know that I'm not the only one for whom that raised some eyebrows!
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Terry
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Just post here for now.
Edited by Terry (Sat Mar 28 2009 06:49 PM)
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JMElston
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A few minor things from the last week or so:
An erect plant (Talinum paniculatum) with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers, grwing from Southwestern North America to Central America; it has been widely introduced elsewhere. Your answer: jewels-of-opar
Typo of grwing for growing.
Marchantiales Your answer: an oder of liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally.
Typo of oder for order.
An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan). Your answer: bangladesh
Typo of teh for the.
foot-loose Your answer: having no commitments or restrictions.
There is a blank answer among the possible selections.
I only do about 1/3 of the Word Wizard quizzes, so I assume that there were other errors that I missed during this period. The godlenly/goldenly case was already mentioned.
The case that got me to start this string was one where two of the choices were very close anti(something) or ante(something). I chose the "wrong" one (anti...) which indicated that its meaning was ante..., the "correct" answer. I'll certainly save that one when it comes up again. Perhaps, someone recalls the case. They were long words ending in "tic".
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greybrow
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From the last quiz I played:
4. Thirteen.
Your answer: thretteen
thretteen is the definition for "Thirteen."
The correct answer was thrittene
Maybe just bad luck that two definitions for the same word were offered at the same time but irritating nevertheless.
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Julia103
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Kalahari: a desert in southwestern africa, most of which is located in the country of botswana
Africa and Botswana should be capitalized.
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happyness162
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Well, it happened again! I was winning Word Wizard, but when it came to announcing the "winner", it wasn't me! In both cases, a Gold member who had tied me was announced as the winner. Talk about being unfair!
This is the last time I ever visit this site.
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JMElston
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Capitalization does seem to be rather intermittant. Here are some examples from the last day or two:
Turnwrest Your answer: designating a cumbersome style of plow used in england, esp. in kent. (England,Kent)
Antiburgher Your answer: one who seceded from the scottish burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the burgess oath. (Scottish)
Corposant Your answer: st. elmo's fire. see under saint. (St. Elmo's)
Maginot line Your answer: a line of fortifications built before world war ii to protect france's eastern border. (World War II, France's)
greenling Your answer: any spiny-finned food fish of the northern pacific coasts, of the genus hexagrammos. (Pacific)
The capital city of Australia. Population (2000) = 307,700. Your answer: canberra (Canberra. This is picky since it is an answer.)
Judaically Your answer: after the jewish manner. (Jewish)
Chouicha Your answer: the salmon of the columbia river or california. see quinnat. (Columbia River, California)
Chelyabinsk Your answer: a city in the asian part of russia. (Asian, Russia)
The initial capitalization of the "questions" is also rather hit or miss. In a recent quiz about half of the questions started with caps, and the rest did not with little rhyme or reason.
Another recent quibble:
Printa-ble Your answer: worthy to be published. (Errant hyphen.)
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Beatka
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I had the same problem: I tied with another person, but I wasn't the one who was announced the winner:
" mhallesy was last hour's winner!
Player Award Correct Seconds Score
1. mhallesy + 78 pts 15 57 1443
2. Beatka + 70 pts 15 57 1443
3. breeze51 + 62 pts 15 85 "
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queproblema
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I've found numerous typos and some words with more than one correct definition, which is a little annoying, but I just can't demand unremitting perfection.
Usually when I question a definition, I learn a new one I didn't know. Case in point: a whale is a mutilate.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to
mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Mutton.]
1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
--Sir T. Browne.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of
legs, as a cetacean.
Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A cetacean, or a sirenian.
From http://dict.die.net/mutilate/
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JMElston
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Evidently all capitalization has been removed from the answers to remove possible clues or bias. Therefore, I will only mention typos and other errors in the answers. For consistancy could you force capitalization of the question. It is distracting when some of the questions begin with capitals and others don't.
a familu of wading birds incuding the herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns. Your answer: ardeidae (family,including)
Having the same tint or color throughout; uniformly or evenly colored. Your answer: isochroous (isochromous)
A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species. Your answer: trochilus
(formerly)
One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude. Your answer: bisegment
(two)
The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Your answer: reprisal
(retaliation)
Caprella Your answer: a genus somprising the skeleton shrimp.
(comprising)
Spectacular Your answer: of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
(show)
One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist. Your answer: pontifician
(Pope,Papacy)
Formed or crystallized at depths beneath the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene. Your answer: hypogene
(Earth)
to to be an author of, together with another author or authors; to author jointly with others. Your answer: co-author
(redundant "to")
Faitless; false; treacherous. Your answer: trothless
(Faithless)
In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. Your answer: godlenly
(goldenly) This may be correct as discussed in previous notes.
To invent; to contrive. Your answer: ingeniate
(Two identical answer choices: intercede)
Galacta-gogue Your answer: an agent exciting secretion of milk.
(Galactagogue)
Printa-ble Your answer: worthy to be published.
(Printable)
To diversify aggain what is already diversified. Your answer: subdiversify
(again)
All of these are very minor but distracting. Thanks for this great site.
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JMElston
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Here are the latest things that I've run across:
Giddy-head Your answer: a person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
(thoughtfulness)
Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Your answer: imperfect
(defective)
Shufflewing Your answer: the hedg sparrow.
(hedge)
A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta). Your answer: knotweed knotweed means "See Knotgrass."
The correct answer was snakeweed
(I suppose knotweed is NOT a KIND of knotweed, but really...)
Reversion Your answer: the act of returning, or coming back; return.
Wrong answer: a familu of wading birds incuding the herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.
(family,including)
Chromolithographic Your answer: pertjining tj, or maoe by, coromolithography.
(pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.)
The quality or state of being rgenerate. Your answer: regenerateness (regenerate)
A country in the Balkan penninsula of southeastern Europe, formerly a part of Yugoslavia. Your answer: bosnia-herzegovina
(peninsula)
Parasceve Your answer: among the jews, the evening before the sabbath.
Wrong answer: a genu having only one species; the greater celandine.
(genus)
Unexperient Your answer: inexperienced.
Wrong answer: proteinaceuos.
(proteinaceous)
Mutilate Your answer: a cetacean, or a sirenian.
Wrong answer: the quality of being imperishable: indstructibility.
(indestructibility)
out-of-door Your answer: located, . (Something missing between comma and period?)
(Duplicate wrong answer: same as housebroken.)
Aforegoing Your answer: goīng before; foregoing.
(going)
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missmisschief
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One of the answers is not in Merriam-Webster dictionary
Having the power of contracting into wrinkles - answer: corrugant
Another one of the answers was misspelled
A mineral occuring in glossy rhombohedral crystals, ..... -answer: cabazite (should be chabazite)
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cinnam0n
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From my Word Wizard quiz today-
13. Incarnate
Correct answer: not in the flesh; spiritual.
That is actually the opposite of what the word means.
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dino335
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Another error -- in the last hour's quiz, -- 11:00 AM EST May 31 2007
"dilation" is given as the answer for the meaning "to delay" when "dilatory" is the correct answer
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Terry
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A bunch of these have been fixed, to this point.
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gable
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Hi Terry,
This looks like a mistake to me.
Lengthwise.
Your answer: lengthwise
lengthwise means "In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise."
The correct answer was longways
Thanks,
Gable
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