WHICH WORD?
NO. 1793
1 ACROTISM
(a) Bitterness of feeling
(b) A word formed from the initial letters of other words
(c) Absence or weakness of the pulse
2 BOLERO
(a) The monetary unit of Venezuela
(b) A lively Spanish dance in three-four time
(c) A rounded mass
3 CERISE
(a) White lead
(b) Sky blue
(c) Cherry red
4 DECUSSATE
(a) To cross in the form of the letter X
(b) To extend downward
(c) To crackle, as salts when heated
5 ENOMOTY
(a) A feeling of weariness
(b) A division of the Spartan army in ancient Greece
(c) Lacking distinctive features
6 FILLISTER
(a) A rebate or groove, as one on a window sash to hold the glass and putty
(b) Ornamental metallic lacework
(c) Obstruction in a legislative body
7 GREMLIN
(a) A coarse-haired terrier
(b) An imaginary animal with lion’s body and eagle’s beak and wings
(c) An imaginary being said to cause disorder
8 HYPNOS
(a) Defect of fibrin in the blood
(b) The Greek god of sleep
(c) The incarnation of light and beauty
9 INVIGILATE
(a) To supervise at examinations
(b) To search with care and accuracy
(c) To strengthen
10 KULAK
(a) A wild ass
(b) In Tsarist times, a rich peasant
(c) A sharp, curved Gurkha knife
11 LIBANT
(a) Sipping
(b) Responsible
(c) Free from constraint
12 MILLESIMAL
(a) Pertaining to a Roman mile
(b) Of a coming golden age
(c) Consisting of thousandth parts
13 NOVENARY
(a) A set of nine things
(b) A Roman emperor’s decree
(c) A devotional exercise
14 ONEIROLOGY
(a) The study of birds’ eggs
(b) The study of dreams
(c) Divination by the fingernails
15 PICKEREL
(a) A young pike
(b) A surveyor’s mark
(c) A small flute
16 RYOT
(a) A disturbance of the peace
(b) A dressed stone at the side of a door
(c) An Indian peasant
17 SPECIOUS
(a) Extensive
(b) Plausibly deceptive
(c) Mentioning particularly
18 TESTUDO
(a) A protective, mobile arched structure used by ancient Roman armies
(b) A password
(c) A coin bearing a king’s or duke’s head
19 URANOLOGY
(a) Astronomy
(b) The art or system of rhythmic movement
(c) Mapping of the planet Uranus
20 VIVIFY
(a) To cry with a loud voice
(b) The use abusive language
(c) To give life