LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: Solve the jumble: SKAEL
- Shrive (from Latin for write, as in write off) can mean to confess, to hear confession, or to forgive. If you didn’t get this write off, we will grant you absolution, so you’ll be shriven of your sin.
- Shoplifting. A kleptomaniac (from Greek kleptein, to steal, and mania) steals obsessively, regardless of financial need.
- An abacus, a frame with beads mounted on rods, is used for counting (chickens or whatever). The word comes from Hebrew (via Greek and Latin) for dust, because a dust-covered table was once used to mark numbers in counting or tallying. Maybe even more than once.
- E. coli (E. from Ger. Physician Theodor Escherich, coli from Latin for colon) is the name of bacteria commonly found in intestines of people and animals.
- Unhampered by rules, especially those regarding sexual behavior. She was surprised to find that her parents consider her boyfriend, Sater, a licentious person. (From a Latin term for unrestrained.)
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