WHICH WORD?

NO. 1697

1 AGAPE (a) A jelly prepared from seaweeds (b) A member of the mushroom family (c) An early Christian love-feast 2 BILINGUAL (a) Involving two sides (b) Speaking two languages (c) Twolipped 3 CERUSE (a) White lead (b) Light and clear red (c) Ear wax 4 DYAD (a) A wood nymph (b) The C.G.S unit of force (c) A part of units treated as one 5 EUPEPSIA (a) A figure of rhetoric (b) Good digestion (c) A exaggerated feeling of wellbeing 6 FILIAL (a) Bearing the relation of a child (b) Pertaining to revenue (c) Affectedly precise in trifles 7 GUANO (a) A large lizard (b) A yellow, pear-shaped fruit (c) A type of fertiliser made from fish 8 HOYDEN (a) A large one-decked boat (b) A tomboy (c) A seat fixed on an elephant’s back 9 IBEX (a) A language of Southern Nigeria (b) A wading bird with curved bill (c) A large-horned mountain wildgoat 10 JAGGERY (a) Coarse, dark sugar (b)Trickery (c) An outside shutter 11 LEVERET (a) Mechanical power gained by use of the lever (b) An inferior priest of the ancient Jewish church (c) A hare in its first year 12 METONYM (a) A pain-relieving drug (b) A word used in a transferred sense (c) An anaesthetic related to ether 13 NUMDAH (a) An Indian embroidered felt rug (b) An aborigine’s hardwood club (c) A small marsupial which feeds on termites 14 OSCULANT (a) Fluctuating (b) Yawning (c) Kissing 15 PECCABLE (a) Liable to sin (b) Very particular (c) Fretful 16 ROTULA (a) A platform for public speaking (b) A beak-like outgrowth (c) The knee-pan 17 SIMONY (a) A hot, suffocating desert wind (b) The buying or selling of a benefice (c) An explicit likening of one thing to another 18 TORTILE (a) Twisted (b) Violently hot (c) Lethargic 19 URSON (a) The Latin name of two constellations (b) A swampy pine forest (c) The Canadian porcupine 20 VERTEX (a) The top or summit (b) A whirlpool (c) Dizziness