| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Bob didn't walk to work today. He ____ his bike instead | Rode | 100%
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| To "break" or decipher a secret language, as described above | Decode | 91%
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| A secret language or what makes a phone app work | Code | 88%
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| A lyric poem, sometimes put to music. Some famous ones were written to a nightingale, to joy, and even one to Billy Joe McAllister | Ode | 88%
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| An individual program from your favorite TV series | Episode | 86%
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| Where you make your home, be it ever so humble | Abode | 81%
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| To burst outward, often violently | Explode | 81%
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| To wear away gradually, often due to weather or moving water. | Erode | 77%
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| The positive pole of a storage battery | Anode | 74%
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| To burst inward, often violently | Implode | 74%
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| A way of doing things (like putting ice cream on your pie) | Mode | 74%
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| The negative pole of a storage battery | Cathode | 56%
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| A large ore deposit. Ask your mother | Lode | 56%
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| An old-time cabinet for your chamber pot, or the porcelain luxury that replaced your chamber pot | Commode | 49%
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| In Geometry, where two lines intersect. In Botany, the place on a stem where a leaf is attached | Node | 49%
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| If you don't keep the poles of your storage battery clean they may do this | Corrode | 47%
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| Geological formation that's hollow inside, like the one pictured in this quiz | Geode | 44%
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| A common electronic component that allows electricity to flow only in one direction | Diode | 42%
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| To portend, presage or indicate | Bode | 30%
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| The pole or post of a storage battery where a cable can be attached | Electrode | 19%
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