A demanding woman who destroys men's confidence

Your answer: ball-breaker

Have to admit, I couldn't stop chuckling after seeing this (sorry, China) and given past situations, I got it right!

That's another kind of Purple!

Another incomplete definition:

Adjustable_spanner

Your answer: can be changed to different settings

It should be something along the line of "a tool for tightening nuts which can be changed to different settings".

The 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

Your answer: triennial

Triennial is only three years, not 300. A 300th anniversary is a tercentenary. At least according to the OED and dictionary.com

12. Black-eyed_pea

Your answer: eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

This definition just seems strange.

"Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant" is another definition in various dictionaries.

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Brutalization

Your answer: the activity of treating someone savagely or vicisouly

"Viciously" is misspelled.

vicisouly, from the Latin vici ('I conquered') and the inner spirit of English origins (soul adverbial form).
Haven't you never been dealt with vici-souly? Having your spirit conquered? I know I have in the GC and KO.

3. Langoustine

Your answer: caught in european waters

Another incomplete animal entry. The word "prawn" or "shrimp" should be included.

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A langoustine is not a prawn or a shrimp! It's a lobster. Small, yes, but not that small. Although some are called Dublin Bay Prawns... oh well, whatever, but lobster is more accurate.

For Langoustine, several of the dictionaries had "prawn" in their definitions, but evidently they are wrong.

12. Pulmonary_tuberculosis

Your answer: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

This definition would seem to need "disease" or something like it added.

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Should be 'principals'.

An inappropriate one popped through the system this morning;

Sodomise - to copulate with an animal.

3. Pay back
Your answer: amortise

amortise means "liquidate gradually"

The correct answer was return

This was a toss up to me.

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12. Utter a harsh abrupt scream
Your answer: skreak



Should this be shriek? Possibly shreak (not in two dictionaries) or screech but definitely not sKreak.

"Skreak" appears in the free dictionary many of these entries seem to come from: http://www.freedictionary.org/?Query=skreak

"4. The status of a religious leader
Your answer: faithful
faithful means "any loyal and steadfast following"
The correct answer was fatherhood"

Fatherhood being the status of a religious leader seems a bit of a stretch to me.

Just a minor typo to report.

9. No capable of being moved or rearranged
Your answer: immovableness


Should be "not" capable.

The word in question was "Shyness":

Your answer: a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset

a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset is the definition for "fluster"

The correct answer was a feeling of fear of embarrassment

Should be three separate words, not two.

1. Star-duckweed

Your answer: cosmopolitan in temperate regions except north america

This definition would seem to need "plant" or something like it added.

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11. Used especially by artists

Your answer: acrylic

This seems incomplete. Maybe adding "medium" or something like that would suffice.

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I just don't think this is fair:

7. Expenditure

Your answer: pay out

pay out is the definition for "disburse"

The correct answer was money paid out

Yes, it doesn't say "pay-out", but that kind of punctuation is missing so often, it's not even funny, so I tend to ignore it. Why juxtapose them?

Simple typo


one who hesitates (uaually out of fear)

14. Commander

Your answer: naval service at land bases

naval service at land bases is the definition for "shore_duty"

The correct answer was an officer in the airforce

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There is no officer in the US Air Force referred to as "Commander". The RAF has an officer referred to as a "Wing Commander", the ALA (the French air force) has an officer referred to as a "Commandant", and the RAAF also has a "Wing Commander". I can't think of any other air force that might use this terminology. I note that this is the 4th definition given for "commander" at freedictionary.org, so I think this definition should either be linked to the 1st definition given ("an officer in command of a military unit"), or retired. The site does not give any reference for its definition, so I would argue that this definition is incorrect.

I chose what I did, by the way, because there is a US Naval rank of "Commander", and I figured there might be a word or two missing from the definition...

1. A week chirping sound as of a small bird

Your answer: tweet

Although the sound may last 7 days, it is rather obvious it should be "weak" rather than "week".

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