Ease In, Ease Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ewe

Female sheep, called ewes, or dams during the lambing season, are in gestation for nearly five months. When they deliver it's usually between 1-3 lambs. If a sheep somehow ends up on its back it must be helped to its feet. Sheep cannot right themselves, and it may be due to the weight of their wool which is sometimes the reason they cast.

Answer: Erne

The erne is a bird of prey called a sea-eagle. Ernes breed in Northern and Western Scotland as well as in Norway. They can also be found in England. They build their nests on sea-cliffs, on the ground, in trees and bushes, or on rocks. As sea birds of prey they eat fish but they will also hunt animals such as rabbits and lambs; a livestock plentiful in the British Isles. Ernes will also devour carrion.

The American Bald Eagle is also an erne. It too can be spotted near coastal waters and is a member of the family Haliaeetus leucocephalus.

Answer: Emcee

Emcee is commonly the spelling of the abbreviated form of the term master or mistress of ceremony, which is M.C. In everyday use it designates the person hosting an event, or the toastmaster.

The term master of ceremonies came from the Catholic Church and goes back to the 15th century. Masters of ceremony are a part of the papal court and are responsible for the ebb and flow of events at rituals involving the Pontiff and sacred liturgy.

Answer: Edible

Edible is a term usually applicable to foods fit for consumption, especially by humans. Edibles are any substances that can be used as food to provide nutrition, energy, and build tissue. Edibles should also be digestible in the alimentary canal.

Answer: Expiate

This is the origin of expiate, according to the 'Merriam-Webster Dictionary': "Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare to atone for, from ex- + piare to atone for, appease, from pius faithful, pious
First Known Use: circa 1500."

The word expiate is a verb.

Here is an example of expiate used in a sentence: Wanting to expiate the loss of her mother's favorite scarf, Rommie saved until she could buy a new one.

Answer: Estrange

Estrange is a word you might hear in a family court setting. It means two or more people or things have been separated and a lack of affection has ensued. The separation can be figurative or literal. For example, a husband and wife can be estranged and live in the same house.

Answer: Entourage

An entourage is a group of people traveling with a person of prestige who see to their immediate needs. They can also be hangers on or groupies. When traveling with royalty this group is called a royal court.

Answer: Expendable

It generally means not worth keeping or keeping up; something that can be sacrificed. Its more emphatic definition is in military speak. Expendable is usually used to refer to supplies, weapons, even equipment that might hamper an objective militarily; at times, and for the greater good of a mission, it could also refer to human life.

Answer: Encapsulate

Synomyns for encapsulate include envelop, sheathe, wrap, shorten, condense, abridge, compress, summarize, and trim just to mention a few.

Encapsulate can refer to the packaging of a product as well as the method some medicines are prepared for patient use. In object-oriented programming it means to enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards against invalid changes

Answer: Extrauterine

Extrauterine means being beyond or outside of the uterus; the term is applied to those cases of pregnancy in which the fetus is contained in some organ exterior to the uterus. If the egg does not make it to the uterus (womb) but rather begins to develop within an ovary or the fallopian tube it is considered an extrauterine or ectopic pregnancy.