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#226 2009-01-21 02:57:48

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Answer to #371:
Thats a very good answer, the right one!


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#227 2009-01-21 17:22:12

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#375. What is 'Asphyxiation'?

#376.  What is 'gargantuan'?

#377. What does 'de facto' mean?

#378. What does the adjective ' eloquent' mean?

#379. What does 'penchant' mean?

#380. What is 'anachronism'?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#228 2009-01-21 23:31:37

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#229 2009-01-22 02:14:19

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Answers to #375, #376, #377, #3788, #379, and #380:-
All correct, JaneFairfax!
Thanks for the additional information, and the picture.
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#381. What is the origin of the word 'cop'?

#382. Who is described as 'Adonis'?

#383. What is 'horse sense'?

#384. Who or what is a 'hermit'?

#385. What does the adjective 'consummate' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#230 2009-01-22 03:55:08

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#231 2009-01-22 04:08:25

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Answers to #382, #384, and #385:-
All correct, JaneFairfax!
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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#232 2009-01-24 18:42:43

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#386. What does the adjective 'naive' mean?

#387. What is a 'contraption' mean?

#388. What is 'collusion'?

#389. What is 'cakewalk'? What is the origin of the word?

#390. What does 'clientele' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#233 2009-01-25 01:42:09

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#234 2009-01-25 03:17:55

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Re: English language puzzles

Answers to #386, #387, #388, and #390:-

All correct, JaneFairfax!

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#235 2009-01-25 03:57:24

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#391. Who is a 'felon'?

#392. What is 'excoriation'?

#393. What does the adjective 'parsimonious' mean?

#394. What does 'avarice' mean?

#395. What/Who is 'antediluvian'?

#396. What does 'ramshackle' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#236 2009-01-25 05:12:18

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#237 2009-01-25 19:21:19

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Answers to #391, #392, #393, #394, #395, and #396:-

All the answers are correct, JaneFairfax!

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#397. What does the idiom 'show one's heels' or 'show a clean pair of heels' mean?

#398. What does 'potentate' mean?

#399. What does 'lien' mean?

#400. What does 'accentuate' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#238 2009-01-25 23:32:08

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#239 2009-01-26 02:23:47

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Answers to #398, and #400:-
Both correct, JaneFairfax!
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#401. What does 'omniscient' mean?

#402. What does 'holocaust' mean?

#403. What does 'expurgate' mean?

#404. What does the adjective 'opprobrious' mean?

#405. What does 'interregnum' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#240 2009-01-26 02:55:59

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#241 2009-01-26 04:05:53

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Re: English language puzzles

Answers to #401, #403, #404, and #405:-
All correct, JaneFairfax!
Your score:-


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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#242 2009-01-26 06:58:09

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#243 2009-01-26 11:32:04

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careless25 wrote:

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#244 2009-01-26 13:28:52

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"The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt")
Holocaust was adopted as a translation of Shoah—a Hebrew word connoting catastrophe, calamity, disaster, and destruction" Wiki gives me that....

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#245 2009-01-26 16:58:44

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#406. What does 'deprave' mean?

#407. What does 'ulta vires' mean?

#408. What does 'harrow' mean?

#409. What does 'garrulous' mean?

#410. What does 'maladroit' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#246 2009-01-27 04:24:42

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#411. What does the noun 'casting vote' mean?

#412. What is a 'kangaroo court'?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#247 2009-01-27 06:05:47

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#248 2009-01-27 16:46:30

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Answers to #409, #410, and #411:-
All correct, JaneFairfax!
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#412. What does 'cavil' mean?

#413. Who is a 'charlatan'?

#414. What does 'predilection' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#249 2009-01-28 01:27:00

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#250 2009-01-28 01:55:01

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Answers to #412, #413, and #414:-
All the three answers are correct, JaneFairfax!
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#415. What is ' Hobson's choice'?

#416. What does 'Catch-22' refer to?

#417.  What does 'conundrum' mean?

#418. Who is a 'renegade'?

#419. What is 'requiem'?

#420. What does 'itinerate' mean?

#421. What does the verb 'waffle' mean?

#422. What does 'Vox populi, vox dei' mean?


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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