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7. Tchotchke
Your answer: (yiddish) a mistress

It was marked correct, but it was wrong! I've seen tchotchke several times in Word Wizard with the correct definition of a knickknack or small, useless item.

Some words have more one definition, and some definitions have more than one word.

Yes, I know this. However, tchotchke is not Yiddish for mistress.

According to Wikipedia there are several meanings for 'tchotchke' and some of those meanings are not very nice descriptions of women; it's not too much of a leap to include 'mistress' as a meaning, in fact that would be preferable to some.

Should be spoliation

Is there any way to have a low score struck out? I'm in a fight to the death with a friend in Wizard. Logged in to WW at 1 minute into the game, only to be told to get out because you were scoring the previous game. I did another game then returned, only to be scored at over 6 minutes - 900 points, obviously timed from my first attempt to play. It's ruining my standing and my rating.

Just played a quiz with the question "A man who is unusually successful at an early age"

I choose boy wonder. Unfortunately the answer was "wonder boy" with the definition given for boy wonder as "an extremely talented young male person"

Since there is basically no difference, is it possible to ensure that definitions like this do not appear in the same quiz?

My word "convenor" wasn't in the dictionary, but the word "convener" was. Once again we seem to be only taking the American way to spell words. The dictionary that is being used for this game surely needs to be updated.

Gnats (although they may be "colloquially" equivalent to mosquitoes in some parts of the world), are not the same insect. Other than the fact that they both belong to the same family (2 winged) and their larvae are both water borne, they don't actually bear a lot of resemblance to one another. There are only one or two gnats that are "carnivorous" and in general they're really quite harmless unless you have houseplants lol.

Flopsy (and others) are quite correct on the tchotchke thang. In its original connotation (by the way, the Yiddish transliteration is something like tshatshke) the word equates to "bauble", pretty object or cheap object. No surprise that it is also used as a derogatory term.

Bubbatom: they're usually missing a U instead lol

5. Cruzeiro
Your answer: the basic unit of money in brazil

Didn't miss it, but Brazil hasn't used the cruzeiro since 1993.

Heartsease (Viola tricolor) is a member of the viola family, closely related to pansies and violets.

I used my knowledge of this plant, which is often used for windowboxes, as my answer.

No, the correct answer is the absence of worry, apparently.

PLEASE, I'm trying to score well on this game.

Could you try to weed out these questions which have two reasonable answers?

Discharge with dishonor, as in the army
Your answer: iniquity

iniquity means "morally objectionable behavior"

The correct answer was cashier


really?

Absolutely - to cashier a soldier is to dismiss him or her in disgrace. As a noun, of course, its meaning is quite different.

Hi.
I can't see my post of yesterday but Word Wizard seems to contain errors from time to time e.g ravisher defined as a seductive woman whereas a ravisher is a person who seduces a woman. A wadi was defined as an infrequent river whereas a wadi is the dried up river bed and template was spelled templet making it difficult to be sure it was referring to template.

Are question submitters asked to check the dictionary before they submit?

In addition to meaning a person who seduces a woman, ravisher might mean someone who looks ravishing (attractive).

http://www.thefreedictionary.com gives templet as a variation of template.

Also from thefreedictionary.com, a wadi is:
a. A valley, gully, or streambed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
b. A stream that flows through such a channel.
If it only flows during the rainy season, that could be considered infrequent.

My understanding is that the words come from various online dictionaries, not from individual submitters.

I just had a question for which the correct answer was "depiction," and TWO of the wrong answers were "organization." What if that had been the right answer?

Terry is aware of this minor glitch (which can also appear in Who Am I) and has said if two answers are the same then they cannot be the correct answer.

I can't see any source for "ravisher" meaning a woman who looks ravishing. This seems an error in mixing the subject with the object.

The Free Dictionary:

2. ravisher - a very attractive or seductive looking woman
≡knockout, lulu, mantrap, stunner, peach, smasher, looker, beauty, sweetheart, dish

O.K Thanks for looking up. I had also looked at the free dictionary. The one I looked at is the Oxford free dictionary which has UK English and US English versions. Which free dictionary did you look at?

There is an online dictionary called 'The Free Dictionary', which often has some of the strange definitions you see in this game. Since the English language has been evolving (both over regions of the world and over time), there are a lot of usages that are not included in any one dictionary.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ravisher

Ravisher, as a term meaning an attractive woman, is one I would be pretty familiar with.

Lucky you, dsimpy!

Sadly, it's the term rather than the women, that I'm familiar with.