LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: WORDS
- Swift dog. The whippets, which resembles small grayhounds, are sometimes used in racing.
- Obligatory (from Late Latin obligatorius, binding) means required, necessary. A good score on this quiz is desirable, but not obligatory—we’ll respect you anyway.
- To relinquish something is to give it up—they demanded that the tyrant relinquish his throne. (It’s from Latin relinquere, to leave behind.)
- Dint (from Old English dynt, "blow dealt in fighting"—especially by a sword) means effort, force. It’s often used in regard to personal achievement—she became a vocabulary ace by dint of rigorous study.
- A supplicant (from Latin supplicatus, past participle of supplicare, to kneel) is someone who is begging, especially by making an earnest and humble entreaty. The supplicants crowded around the faith-healer, begging to be made healthy.
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