LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: MAY-be
- It’s an urgent call for help (from the French), often used by ships and planes in trouble. The air traffic controllers were astounded when maydays came in from four planes within a short period.
- Eye-doctors. Amblyopia (from Greek amblus, dim, and op, eye) is a condition marked by decreased vision, especially when occurring in one eye, without apparent physical cause. Also called lazy eye.
- Yerba buena (from Spanish yerba, herb, and buena, good) is a trailing vine of the mint family. It was formerly used in medicine.
- Blessed are they who chose answer 4. The Beatitudes (from Latin beatus, meaning "blessed" or "happy") are declarations of blessedness, from the biblical account of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Exogamous (from Greek exo, outside, and gamos, marriage) means marriage (or such) outside the tribe or group. He defended his dalliance by saying geneticists claim exogamy is good for the gene pool.
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