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| Author: | Rhino [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Words List for June 1, 2011 |
Progress I suppose. We got eight gimmes and two challenges instead of 9/1. Actually not too bad of a list all considered. |
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| Author: | zog741 [ Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Words List for June 1, 2011 |
Rhino wrote: Progress I suppose. We got eight gimmes and two challenges instead of 9/1. Actually not too bad of a list all considered. I wouldn't call eight of them "gimmies". But then again, "Dyslexitopia" is not one of my best games. Played tonight at Rookies (Cromwell, CT). Played solo against two others whom I consider strong trivia players (WILDCT and STYNG). All three of us finished with similar scores with one of us breaking 7K. I messed on on prosy and arapaima, while making a lucky guess at rimose. On the last question, I had the insight (or luck) of linking ormolu with oro and went with "imitation gold" as my answer (about 850 points). -- RWM |
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| Author: | tiefly [ Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Words List for June 1, 2011 |
A fish word---hehehehehehe. Hoping for tautaug next week. |
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| Author: | Rhino [ Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Words List for June 1, 2011 |
ERIC wrote: I played solo at D Rays. I tripped up on Boon and Alacrity, other than that it was fairly smooth sailing.. Now that's weird. I'd guess they are two of the most common words up there. Boon especially is in frequent current usage in newspapers etc. Alacrity is a little dated perhaps but it's not as though you even have to go back to the Victorians to find it in fairly widespred use in general interest and novels - 60s tops. Words such as rimose (where I lost my points thinking between the two possible adjectives - never heard of that one before I confess) are far less likely to come up in general reading, as is arapaima (where the linguistic tinge of South America was all that was needed). The rest are at most a little outdated but still common. Purely for my curiosity a Google search showed 42mm hits on boon including 27.2mm for the most frequent usage "boon to the....". Dozens of 2011 artiles in various sources on the first few pages (thankfully not many connected to Australian racism). Rimose? 93k with front pages all to lexicological sites. Now of course people's reading and hence vocabulary vary widely. Thus Tiefly gleefully precalls a fish answer I only got through a guesstimate at geographical origin, whereas the number of 18-19th century novels I have read containing references to ormolu clocks and people acting with alacrity makes those easier for me than many. But I confess on some of BT's 1-2 toughies per game I have no idea where they would be encountered outside specialized usage (not really a complaint btw - 10 general usage modern words would be tedious in the extreme - we had that a couple years back). |
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