WHICH WORD?

NO. 1799

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ATHETESIS (a) Opposition to theology (b) Rejection of a text as spurious (c) Appearance of ancestral characteristics

BINGLE (a) A fight (b) A form of lotto (c) Sun-dried lean meat COYPU (a) A prairie wolf (b) A S. American aquatic rodent (c) A bird akin to the rail

DUGONG (a) A marine mammal (b) A small S. African antelope (c) A circular Arab encampment EPHEBE (a) The grape (b) A Jewish linen surplice (c) A young male citizen of ancient Greece FLAVESCENT (a) Yellowish (b) Blowing (c) Having relish

7 GOUDA (a) The monetary unit of Haiti (b) A Dutch mild cheese (c) A fleshy fruit with hard rind HALATION (a) Blurring in a photograph (b) Soundness of body (c) Delusion

IMPASSIVE (a) Restless (b) Not liable to sin (c) Not showing feeling 10 JOUGS (a) A wandering minstrel (b) The encounter of two knights on horseback (c) A fastened iron ring put on the neck of offenders 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

LIXIVIATION (a) Leaching (b) Contention at law (c) Regular church ritual

MONORHINE (a) Existing in one form only (b) Having one nostril (c) A word of one syllable NUBECULA (a) The nape of the neck (b) Cloudiness (c) A central mass or kernel

OSSEIN (a) The organic basis of bone (b) A legendary Gaelic poet (c) The mouth of a river

POSTIL (a) Disposition of mind (b) A small private door (c) A book of homilies

RUCHE (a) A pleated frilling (b) A flourish after a signature (c) A narrow lane

SOLEUS (a) Compensation for wounded feelings (b) Flat muscle of the leg (c) An absurdity TEEPEE (a) A Mexican intoxicating drink (b) A Native N. American tent (c) A wide-brimmed ventilated hat VITILIGO (a) The white of an egg (b) A skin abnormality (c) A band for the head

ZANZE (a) An African musical instrument (b) A Spanish kind of operetta (c) An irrigating canal 1

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