| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Trained wine expert; manager of a restaurant's wine service | Sommelier | 92%
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| Showing hypocritical religious devotion, piety, or moral superiority | Sanctimonious | 88%
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| Mental numbness or confusion, often resulting from shock or disbelief | Stupefaction | 86%
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| Excessively sweet or sentimental; cloying | Saccharine | 83%
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| Room for dishwashing and kitchen-work | Scullery | 83%
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| Shallow area in a body of water, such as a sandbar | Shoal | 83%
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| A habitually lazy or indolent person | Sluggard | 83%
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| Able to display self-control in regards to pleasure or pain | Stoic | 83%
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| The provision of support, maintenance, or nourishment; conservancy | Sustentation | 81%
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| Everlasting; enduring without end | Sempiternal | 73%
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| A ditch adjacent to a parapet; or, an abrupt, cliff-like slope | Scarp | 69%
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| Official or representative of a corporation or government; or, a magistrate | Syndic | 66%
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| Displaying haughty disdain or patronizing arrogance | Supercilious | 62%
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| Fine, spray-like water droplets blown from breaking waves | Spindrift | 61%
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| Subsidy provided to support a specific project or institution | Subvention | 49%
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| Short, satirical piece of writing | Squib | 45%
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