Words that End in X

Good quiz

Maybe their XL size differs in each country, to compliment the buyer. That would be a very good marketing strategy

I was trying Spandex.

what about manx for cat

Sphinx has the head of a women doesn't it?

Only a theory, not proven.

So is gravity, but the current theory works better than any other competing theory. The previous prevailing explanation of it being vestigial (and serving no function) is also ‘only a theory,’ but the common practice is to assume the correctness of the currently prevailing theory until if/when a more sound explanation arises. If we assume everything to be wrong until proven, we end up in a paradox in which the appendix does and doesn’t serve a purpose because each theory must be wrong, on account of neither being proven.

^^When used in a scientific context, the word "theory" should never be immediately preceeded by the words "only a"

^Paradox would be a good one to add

nothing in science is ever proven.

The appendix in most animals, called the caecum in anything that actually uses the thing, has a very big role in digestion. In humans it is a storage place for beneficial gut bacteria so I would argue it does have a function

Maybe you need to reform!

Not really!

Only got 10/20. This was too COMPLEX lol

Plus I missed the best one of all, Sex.

I miss it too.

(Oh! But I didn't miss it in this quiz.)

Here in Maryland, most duplexes aren't apartments (rentals); they're owned houses, complete with mortgages, etc. They're much like single-family houses, except they have a common dividing wall down the middle, usually built of heavy masonry to try to contain fires.

What you describe is called a pair of semi-detached houses in the UK.

In the Philadelphia PA area they are known as twins and each side can be sold separately.

Kept trying Asterix, Obelix, Dogmatix, Vitalstatistix, Unhygenix...

No. Crucifix is crucifix. If you took a long time to spell it, it's because you don't know how to spell it. What about sphynx? Isn't that an acceptable spelling?

Phalanx is a good one

A duplex is one apartment on two levels. Usually with the living room, dining room, kitchen and perhaps a powder room on the main floor

and the bedrooms and full baths on the upper floor.

So I guess I just pulled it out of thin air then, even though I recently bought a duplex apartment from a real estate agent.

I would assume the term could vary by city, county, state, country, etc. or whatever governing body defines it. Including down to the real estate contract that defines it to the satisfaction of the parties involved.

I have never heard of “roux”.

You don't cook at home much? I make sauces and thicken soups by making a roux all the time.

I know it as the name of a Rubik's Cube method, named after Gilles Roux

It's a method of making a white sauce like a bechamel or a cheese sauce. You start by melting the fat (usually butter) then mix in the flour to a paste. That's the roux. You can then slowly add the liquid (usually milk) a little at a time.

In my case, "Sphinx" doesn't readily occur as a valid spelling.

I tried "Sphynx" a couple of times, it didn't take, so I shrugged and figured I was on the wrong track (because the head was a woman's or something? I dunno). "Sphinx" didn't occur to me at all.

I finally did get it, in the dying seconds, after spending a couple of minutes wracking my brains for an answer to that one last question. Finally, with about 3 seconds to spare, I typed "sphinx" in, completely not expecting to get it right, but more out of desperation because I had no other ideas.

TL;DR "Sphynx" should absolutely be accepted as a type-in.

haha, said sex for "suitable for either gender" but ended up in the the other one

A spiral staircase is not a helix, it's a spiral.

Yeah, it’s the other way round, a spiral staircase is not actually a spiral, it’s a helix. Because the English language is designed to mess with people.

The appendix' function is known, it's just not useful anymore. It was for processing raw meat

'Either' gender? You'll be paid a visit by the political correctness police if you're not careful ;-)

I thought perhaps that was not the best thread to be tugging at on here. We wouldn’t want this turning into the comment section of a Ben Shapiro YouTube video…

When my forebears were fighting for gay liberation, thank God we didn’t ruin it by antagonising the rest of the population by scouring every piece of text for ‘unacceptable’ grammar, even in the most innocuous of places and in the most throwaway of lines. Because we wouldn’t have progressed to where we are, they’d have just added “irritating pedants” to their list of reasons why they already hated us.

And before I’m accused of being anti-trans, or one of those LGB trogs, that would be wrong. I’m as pro trans rights as I am ‘pro’ my own rights or anybody elses. But, as a strategy, this inflexible, pedantic and, frankly, annoying grammar/vocabulary policing is not the best, it’s bad PR at best. At worst, I’d say it’s actually offensive to trans people (yes, even if the agitator is trans themselves). Because the trans people I know have endured a lot worse, and to suggest everyone of them is so thin-skinned as to be offended by the grammar of a quiz clue trivialises their real struggle.

Those are different words.