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91. What word would you add to the end of "long" to create a new word that means "a weapon"?

From Quiz The Long of It

Answer: Bow

A longbow is a weapon used in medieval England which could sometimes exceed 6 feet (1.8 meters). The word "bow" derives from the Old English "boga" originally meaning 'bent'. It was in use from around 1500.

From Quiz The Short of It

Answer: Stop

A shortstop is a baseball fielder. A shortstop fields in an infield position between second and third base. Usage of the word dates from 1837.

From Quiz "A" Spaced Out Quiz To A Muse

Answer: Apace

"Pace" derives ultimately from the Latin "passus" meaning to stretch out or spread out and came to designate a step taken in walking. "Apace" is also used in the sense of keeping pace with.

From Quiz A Panful of Pan-Words

Answer: a speech for a large audience

Panegyric derives from "pan" and a Greek word for "assembly", meaning a speech for the whole or for a large assembly.

From Quiz Pots and Pans

Answer: Pancake

An excellent breakfast treat, often served covered with maple syrup.

From Quiz Get a Good Tan!

Answer: tanager

One kind is scarlet.

From Quiz Belly Up to the 'Bar'

Answer: Venetian boat song

From Quiz Vocabulary: Living in "Sin"

Answer: singe

To singe means to burn something superficially or around the edges. Its usage dates back to the late 15th century.

From Quiz No Pro, All 'CON-'

Answer: CONtessa

Another word for 'countess', the word Contessa is a title bestowed upon a woman who is married to a Count or an Earl in a noble sense. Today, the term is rarely used. You're more likely to hear the word Contessa in relation to fictional characters as they give a sense of the exotic and mysterious. Alternatively, you may know of Ina Garten, the American cookbook author and cooking show personality who goes by the name 'Barefoot Contessa'.

From Quiz 'Ex-' Marks The Spot

Answer: Extemporaneous

comes from Latin 'ex tempore'-of the time

From Quiz Tom Hanks Teaches Vocabulary

Answer: Iran

The rial is the official currency of Iran. However, if you have one toman, it is the same as having ten rials. It is like the United States having a dime or ten pennies, more coins with the pennies, but it's worth the same.

From Quiz Correspondingly, Correspondences Corrodiate

Answer: Corpulent

Corpulent is a formal adjective for someone who is plump, overweight, or obese. It's based on the Latin word "corpus", which means body.

From Quiz She's Fine

Answer: shenanigans

The origin of the word 'shenanigans' is unclear, but one suggestion is that it comes from the Irish word 'sionnachuighim', or 'I play the fox'. It is generally used to mean complicated, adventurous or mischievous antics, sometimes involving pranks. In 'Cow Days', an early episode of 'South Park', Kyle alerts Officer Barbrady to the shady goings-on of a traveling carnival by 'calling shenanigans'.

From Quiz Look Up in the "Sky"

Answer: skysurf

If you skysurf while skydiving it would earn you extra points! Skysurfing is a form of exercise done during free fall in which a board is worn on the feet. Mid-air aerobatics can be performed as if surfing on water. Skysurfing can be pretty exciting as you would rotate the view in every angle, seeing the sky below your feet and the ground above your head! The history of skysurfing only goes back to 1965, when Gary Patmor was the first person to skysurf. Skytrick and skyfly are two of my made-up words used as incorrect choices. Skyfall means a sudden downfall, such as the downfall of emotion from the death of a loved one, according to the "Urban Dictionary".

From Quiz Get Some "Sun" First

Answer: sunbonnet

Sunbonnets are good to wear because they keep your head cool and prevent your neck from getting burned by the sun. In olden times, sunbonnets are commonly worn by women, but now they are more commonly worn by infants simply due to changes in fashion in accordance with time. Sunbonnets are made of cotton, and people have been wearing them since the Middle Ages.

From Quiz Hypothesise This!

Answer: A part of a fruit

Fruits typically (but not always) consist of various components, including a pericarp, or outer layer, composed of the skin, exocarp, the flesh, mesocarp, and the stony pit, or endocarp, which contains the seed. The fruit sits in a receptacle called the hypocarp, which joins it to the stem. Enough nutty carping on about fruit - on to the next hypo!

From Quiz What a Load of Hyper!

Answer: Experience of past traumatic events

Hyperarousal is a major symptom of PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder, a common condition among veterans of military service. According to Joshua S. Goldstein in his 2001 book "War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa" - "The number of psychiatric casualties in every war in this century ... have exceeded the number of soldiers killed by hostile fire by 100 percent." In World War I, military leaders denied pensions to sufferers of "shell shock" as it was then called, denying that it was a real condition and was being used by troops as a device to facilitate an escape from the war front. This condition is not limited to war veterans. Victims of other traumas such as violent crime, motor vehicle accidents, fire, etc, also often develop PTSD. Thankfully our understanding of this debilitating condition has increased in recent years and continues to do so.

From Quiz Are You Having "Fun"?

Answer: function

Function is an action of the thing whose purpose is to have a needed effect, or a thing that serves the need. There are many examples of function. The function of the lungs is to exchange air between the outside and the body. The function of the window is to provide daylight into the building while keeping the elements out. In mathematics, function is a relation between input and output variables, an example is (bx + c).

From Quiz I Have an Arch

Answer: Archive

Synonyms for the noun form of the word include chronicles and annals. Archive is also used as a verb describing the act of filing or cataloging.

From Quiz Talk a Blue Streak

Answer: Bluegrass

Bluegrass music is regarded as a sub-genre of country music and most commonly associated with the state of Kentucky in the United States of America. While it is believed to have been inspired by the music of the Appalachian region, it also incorporates elements of traditional English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish music.

From Quiz Do You Want to "Win"?

Answer: winter

Winter is the coldest season where freezing temps, snow, and long nights are common. Winter in the northern hemisphere lasts from December through March, and from June through September in the southern hemisphere. Skiing, riding snowmobiles, building snowmen, and throwing snowballs are winter pastimes.

From Quiz Men Have Got a Lot to Answer For!

Answer: A beggar

The definition of the word mendicant is "beggar", or someone who is always asking for money. They generally rely on charitable donations. Mendicants are associated with some religious orders who visit villages, begging for food while they preach.

From Quiz Why Are You Horsing Around?

Answer: Horsehair

Horsehair was widely used in the nineteenth century as upholstery in the production of sofas and was frequently used to make shaving brushes. Currently, horsehair samples are employed in DNA analysis and genetic testing of horses.

From Quiz Words Starting With Up

Answer: uphold

For example, a court upholds the initial sentence after rejecting the defendant's appeal against it. When you reverse the two parts of the word "uphold" , you get "hold up" and that is precisely what "uphold" means: to support or to defend. All government officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution. The first known use of the verb "uphold" was in the 13th century. Uphold also means to lift up or keep elevated ('Merriam-Webster Dictionary').

From Quiz The Eggheads Exciting Expedition

Answer: Alien, foreign or superfluous

Extraneous basically means not belonging to, or outside the range or facts of any given topic, event and so forth. Team member Creedy from down under said "My baseball input would consist of questions along these lines": (1) Er, um and oh yes, do Americans put Vegemite on their hot dogs? (2) Er, um and oh yes, what position did Pete Sampras play in his long term baseball career, and (3) Er, um and oh yes, where on the gridiron were the baseball diamonds dug up?

From Quiz Poly wanna learn a new word?

Answer: Having an excess number of fingers or toes

The fictitious description of Boleyn is believed to have been created (or at least spread) after her death by Nicholas Sanders, a Catholic propagandist who laid the blame for Henry VIII's split from the church at the feet of the executed Queen. As well as allegedly having six fingers on one hand, another rumour claimed she had three breasts.

From Quiz A Quiz In Which 'She' Appears

Answer: sheave

A sheave is a device with a groove which can have a cable or a rope on its edge. It can be hung between supports in which case it is called a pulley. Shehitah is the name of the Jewish method of ritual slaughter which is intended to make meat consumption more hygienic. Sheath may refer to material covering a weapon, to a dress, to a structure which encloses, or to a means of contraception. Sherpa is the name of people who live in highly mountainous regions in Nepal. In Tebetan, it means 'eastern people."

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