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Fancy Vocabulary #5
Feel smart and fancy by completing the English words from their definitions. Correct spelling is required.
The previous quiz in this series can be found here (Quiz 4)
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| First submitted | October 30, 2018 |
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Fancy Vocabulary
Quiz series by kiwirage
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Additionally, I've always understood the word 'diaspora' to be a collective term to refer to people of a single origin who are no longer resident in their traditional homeland rather than referring to the actual process of leaving that homeland (whether voluntary or forced.) I googled it, and found that while this does seem to be the main definition, most sources include both what I said as well as the one used in the quiz. So I learned something new today :)
“We could eat her tonight. I could make a PIQUANT sauce.” (The Two Doctors)
Silver NEMESIS (Silver Nemesis)
“There’s a Cyberman out there on the FUSELAGE.” (Death in Heaven)
HIATUS (1985—1986; 1989—2005)
The ELIXIR of Life (The Brain of Morbius)
“Oh, I think the explanation might be you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection. Little bit like VENTRILOQUISM(T) of the nose. It's an elementary trick in certain parts of the galaxy.” (The Family of Blood)
“Pity. I’d just composed a particularly nasty EPITAPH for him.” (Earthshock)
“Farewell, my LOQUACIOUS friend.” (The Trial of a Time Lord)
“I know somewhere that is truly tranquil, peaceful, restful. A PANACEA for the cares of the mind.” (Revelation of the Daleks)
Strange how much about the real world you can learn from fiction, isn’t it?
Interestingly the word halcyon comes from the word for king-fisher :) The myth goes that while the king-fisher was nesting, the gods made sure the seas were calm and there was no (strong) wind.
So it (originally) indeed means quiet calm serene etc. Though I have heard of it meaning happy indeed as well (on this website I think). I guess the jump from serene to happy isn't a big one.
the one ending in -quy was tough too as well as the one ending in -taph
I missed the cure-all, calm (though I was close) and exodus. I have only hear of the word used in the sense of having already dispersed, not the dispersing itself.