Definition
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First Letter
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Word
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An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
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S
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School
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The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
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A
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Accumulation
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A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
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C
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Crop
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To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
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W
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Wriggle
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To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
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A
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Applaud
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An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private […] schemes
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P
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Pension
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Covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
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D
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Dirty
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An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.
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S
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Studio
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A challenge, trial.
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T
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Test
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The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
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F
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Fur
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An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
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K
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Kidney
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Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
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T
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True
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To move haphazardly without any destination.
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D
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Drift
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Definition
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First Letter
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Word
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A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
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S
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Sheep
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An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity.
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E
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Equation
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To ascend; rise; to go up.
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C
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Climb
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Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
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P
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Perfect
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The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
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A
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Accent
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A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
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C
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Chief
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To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
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D
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Dictate
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Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
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S
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Stable
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A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
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B
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Blind
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Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
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S
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Single
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That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
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C
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Creed
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A self-propelled railway vehicle for passengers, similar to a bus.
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R
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Railcar
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback.
Most of us learn the majority of our vocabulary by repeatedly hearing or reading words in a meaningful context, not by looking words up in a dictionary. The challenge here, then, is to connect a dictionary definition to a word the quiz taker has probably already learned through context and repetition. This series was never intended to be more gimmicky than that.
I would find the “last-letter-linked-to-first-letter-of-next-answer” approach impractical. Occasionally, it has come to light that multiple words with similar meanings have the same first letter. Those situations are usually easy enough to address with unlinked words, but could potentially result in a nightmare of redesign with words linked by letters.
Another series of themed word quizzes is under consideration, but this series was never intended to be anything but random. In fact, I use a random word generator to supply the answers for each quiz in this series.
Even after spending time thinking about it, I struggle to see how alphabetizing random unrelated words would make the quiz easier, more challenging, more interesting, or more desirable to take. If you can convince me there is value in alphabetizing the answers, I will consider it for future quizzes in this series.