WHICH WORD?

NO. 1727

1 ANTAGONIST (a) One who goes before (b) An opponent (c) One who contradicts 2 BOLIDE (a) A genus of fungi (b) Spanish national dance (c) A fireball 3 CORSAGE (a) A funeral procession (b) A bouquet worn at the waist (c) An enclosed courtyard within a building 4 DESULTORY (a) Jumping from one thing to another (b) Tending to overthrow (c) Beyond hope 5 ETUDE (a) The true origin of a word (b) A musical study piece (c) A starshaped object 6 FOUDROYANT (a) Thundering or dazzling (b) A silk handkerchief (c) A ballet step in which the foot makes a whip-like movement 7 GREISEN (a) Undyed cloth (b) Rock composed of quartz and mica (c) A registrar 8 HIEROPHANT (a) A sacred symbol (b) A temple slave (c) A priest 9 IGLOO (a) An ignorant person (b) A dome-shaped snow hut (c) A large thick-tongued lizard 10 LECTIONARY (a) A book of church lessons for each day (b) A kind of

encyclopedia (c) A hospital for lepers 11 MENHIR (a) An Eastern salutation (b) A crescent-shaped figure (c) An ancient monumental standing stone 12 NUMMARY (a) Relating to coins or money (b) A sheepskin pad placed under a saddle (c) A small marsupial 13 ORIBI (a) A row of stakes let down like a portcullis (b) A South African antelope (c) A polygonal window 14 PINDER (a) A gripping tool (b) The pine-cone (c) One who impounds cattle 15 REVOKE (a) To annul (b) To rise in opposition (c) To bring back to activity 16 SCAPHOID (a) Of the shoulder-blade (b) Boat-shaped (c) A bragging, cowardly buffoon 17 TRANSIENT (a) Of short duration (b) Leaping across (c) Of changing form 18 URVA (a) A S. American vulture (b) The Canadian porcupine (c) Asian crab-eating mongoose 19 VIVES (a) Rootlets or fibres (b) A disease of horses (c) Eatables 20 WASSAIL (a) Revelry (b) A sea-monster (c) Bread made from the finest of flour