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Word Mini-Quiz
Choose the word that best completes the meaning
of the sentence. The answers are listed below -
no cheating!
1. The three-year-old was _______ in his refusal to
taste the broccoli.
a. recondite
b. didactic
c. fortuitous
d. resolute
e. genteel
2. We _______ the fine print in the document but were
unable to find the clause the lawyer had mentioned.
a. scrutinized
b. reconciled
c. exculpated
d. cajoled
e. accrued
3. A state in which one can see, hear, feel, smell, and
taste little or nothing is known as _______ deprivation.
a. aggregate
b. subversive
c. sensory
d. sensual
e. sensuous
4. The children tried to be _______ about the fact that
their parents couldn't afford to give them Christmas
presents, but you could tell that they were really
quite depressed inside.
a. tangential
b. abysmal
c. stoic
d. disingenuous
e. eclectic
5. We felt repeatedly _______ by the impersonal and
inflexible bureaucracy in our attempt to win an
exemption to the rule.
a. vindicated
b. stymied
c. deluged
d. reiterated
e. gesticulated
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Tuesday's Riddles
1) What is open when it is closed,
and closed when it is open?
2) What goes up,
What goes down,
What goes around,
But stays in one place?
(Name 4 things)
3) When asked how old she was,
Suzie replied, "In two years I will
be twice as old as I was five years
ago." How old is she?
4) Which common 4 letter English
word, when printed in capital letters,
reads the same both upside-down
and the right way up?
5) What is so fragile that when you
say its name you break it?
6) Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR
to make one word instead.
7) How many four pence stamps
are there in a dozen?
8) What is Al Gore's middle name?
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Monday's Riddles
1) Sometimes I am square,
Sometimes I am not.
help to keep you dry,
and sometimes to keep
you from getting hot.
I am in the color you
want me to be,
And am there for the
whole world to see.
What am I?
2) Two people were crossing a bridge. One was
the father of the other ones' son. What was their
relationship?
3) Double my number, I'm less than a score, half of
my number is less than four. Add one to my double
when bakers are near, days of the week are still
greater, I fear. What am I?
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Riddles
1) Can you figure out these well known
proverbs?
A) A rotating fragment of mineral collects
no bryophytic plants.
B) Under no circumstances compute the
number of your barnyard fowl previous
to their incubation.
C) A feathered biped in the terminal part
of the arm equals in value a pair of feather-
ed bipeds in densely branched shrubbery.
D) Everything is legitimate in matters per-
taining to ardent affection and armed conflict
between nations.
2) I know a thousand faces,
and count the tailed heads,
feasting bright upon the eyes,
of many who have died.
wielding well a mighty power,
who hath but humble stature.
Masses fall upon their knees,
to scare behold my only side!
3) When I'm used, I'm useless,
once offered, soon rejected.
In desperation oft expressed,
the intended not protected.
What am I?
4) Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last
Lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights --
A city in the twilight, dim and vast,
With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.
5) If you have it you want to share it. If you share
it you won't have it. What is it?
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Riddles
with their dogs. Counting heads there are 22.
Counting legs there are 68. How many boys and
dogs are at the park?
2) Assuming that the vowels are A E I O & U,
name a six-letter word that has no vowels?
3) What do you throw out when you want to use it,
but take in when you don't want to use it?
4) A word or name that is spelled backwards the
same as it is forwards is a linguistic curiosity call
a "palindrome." Words such as BIB, SEES, and MADAM
are examples of ordinary palindromes. Many every-
day words happen to be palindromes. Listed below
are the definitions of 10 such words, with the
numbers of letters in each palindrome shown in
brackets after the definition. How many of these
commonplace palindromes do you recognize from
their definitions?
A) a notable achievement (4)
B) not sloping (5)
C) more blood-colored (6)
D) 12 hours after midnight (4)
E) males and females (5)
F) one who resuscitates another (7)
G) narratives of heroic deeds (5)
H) pertaining to public affairs (5)
I) made wet with dew (5)
J) a mechanical part that causes rotation (7)
5) Can you decipher this famous saying?
That prudent avis which matutinally
deserts the coziness of its abode will
ensnare a vermiculate creature.
6) What has one leg,
but not two.
Never gets fat,
has 15 teeth,
but doesn't chew.
All green and no blue,
bugs don't like them but I do.
What are they?
7) Without a bridle, or a saddle,
across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me,
though almost blind, are made to see.
What am I?
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