LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: LOVER

  1. Is a little odd, or shady, or questionable. His mother always worried that he would become a lounge lizard who liked louche ladies (from a Latin term for blind, via a French term for cross-eyed).
  2. An ovipositor is an organ at the end of some insects’ abdomens, used to deposit eggs (from Latin ovi, egg, and posit, to place).
  3. Defeat. He was disappointed when the White Sox utterly vanquished the Astros (from Latin vincere to overcome).
  4. A striptease artist. H.L. Mencken jokingly coined the term "ecdysiast," based on the Greek ekdysis, which refers to the shedding of skin by snakes, insects, etc.
  5. Renal means kidney-related (from Latin ren, kidneys).
Posted by Dave at 8/24/2011 4:58 PM
Categories: language, words, word quiz
Tags: American English communication grammar LandaBooks Language louche ovipositor vanquish ecdysiast renal
 

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