WHICH WORD?

NO. 1849

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AGIST (a) To suffer agony (b) To take in and feed livestock for payment (c) To make a first attack BICAMERAL (a) Addicted to strong drink (b) Having two chambers as a legislative body (c) Happening twice a year

CAMPANILE (a) A belltower (b) A collection of songs (c) A Latin-American peasant farmer

DIPTERAL (a) Of dual origin (b) Calamitous (c) Having two rows of columns on all sides ESPARTO (a) An international language (b) A grass used for making paper (c) A type of window lock FILIAL (a) Pertaining to a son or daughter (b) Pertaining to a leaf (c) Excessively precise GALACTIC (a) Pertaining to women (b) Of Gaul (c) Relating to milk HANDJAR (a) An inaugural gift (b) A Persian dagger (c) A kind of grape IMPI (a) A teasing or taunting child (b) A group of Bantu warriors (c) An African antelope

KARAKA (a) A New Zealand tree (b) A Polynesian dance (c) A South African blanket

LEXIS (a) A linked group (b) In Latin, 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 law (c) The total stock of words in a language

MELIORATE (a) To make better (b) To join in fight (c) To lose distinct form NESTOR (a) Arabic cursive handwriting (b) A wise old man (c) A winter pear

OPSIMATHY (a) Learning obtained late in life (b) Shameful conduct (c) Study of the eye

PLEXOR (a) A network (b) A delicate membrane lining the chest cavity (c) A small hammer used for diagnostic purposes

REHOBOAM (a) The German state bank (b) A large wine bottle (c) A first-magnitude star in Leo SENDAL (a) A long, narrow African boat (b) A member of a flower calyx (c) A silk fabric used in the Middle Ages

TELAMON (a) A figure of a man used as a supporting column (b) A light cable car (c) A force assumed to be at work in telepathy

UMIAK (a) A pattern on a shield (b) An open Inuit boat (c) A ghostly figure VINDICTIVE (a) That may be overcome (b) Energetic (c) Pursuing revenge

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