WHICH WORD?

NO. 1657

1 AFFIANCE (a) Engage in money business (b) Adopt as a member or branch (c) To betroth

2 BEGUINE (a) Dance of French West Indian origin (b) Wile into some course (c) A Muslim princess or lady of rank 3 COGITATE (a) Make convincing (b) Turn a thing over in one’s mind (c) Become conscious of

4 DEPRECATE (a) Lower the value of (b) Regret deeply (c) Plunder or prey upon 5 ESURIENT (a) Hungry or rapacious (b) Taught to a select few (c) Worthy of esteem

6 FACADE (a) Delicate gold and enamel ware (b) A witty or humorous saying (c) Exterior front of a building 7 GALAPAGO (a) A tortoise (b) A long-tailed nocturnal lemur (c) A type of gum resin 8 HANSARD (a) A light two-wheeled carriage (b) Printed reports of debates in parliament (c) An inaugural gift

9 ILEX (a) A wading bird (b) Large-horned mountain goat (c) Holly genus 10 JAMPAN (a) An Indian sedan-chair (b) Muslin woven in design of flowers (c) An East African salutation

11 KUDOS (a) An antelope with long spiral horns (b) Supreme god of the Greeks (c) Fame or prestige

12 LAMELLA (a) A unit of brightness (b) In mythology, a blood sucking serpent witch (c) A thin plate or layer 13 MAGNANIMITY (a) Generosity (b) Importance (c) Evil provoking 14 NAGANA (a) A disease of horses and cattle (b) A blissful state (c) A hookah tobacco pipe

15 PIMENTO (a) A small burrowing armadillo (b) Allspice or Jamaica pepper (c) Medicine given to humour or gratify a patient

16 RATIFY (a) Give validity or legality to (b) Divide into branches (c) Become less dense 17 SOMNAMBULIST (a) A second year student (b) A sleepwalker (c) Member of a woman’s club

18 TERMAGANT (a) An American freshwater tortoise (b) A boisterous, brawling woman (c) A web-footed sea-bird of great voracity 19 UMBLES (a) The entrails of a deer (b) Shadowy appearances (c) A knob on a toadstool cap

20 VITUPERATE (a) Render faulty or defective (b) Convert into glass (c) Use abusive language