Baby Got Books A Dictionary: The Quiz
Pick up your number two pencil and match the spelling word on the left with its definition on the right.  Remember, you are on the honor system. Answers coming soon.

1. commemorate
2. brethren
3. nectar
4. samurai
5. lose
6. rhinoceros
7. gluttonous
8. detritus
9. wuss
10. rye
11. wryly
12. caterwauling
13. blanch
14. passel
15. nickel
16. jitney
17. chi chi  
18. frou-frou
19. knell
20. foreword
21. pantagamy
22. griot
23. redoubt
24. oryx
25. pipsissewa
26. bricolage
27. macedoine
28. vichyssoise
29. imprest            
30. straitened
31. gamelan
32. samizdat
33. pasquinade
34. sepulture
35. philogyny
36. terete
37. ignisfatuus
38. cruse
39. secours
40. marram
41. hellgrammite
42. beviss
43. paillard
44. ichor
45. terret
46. armozeen
47. karmadharaya
48. Mkhedruli
49. treen
50. mocotaugan
51. chytrid
52. baudrons
53. saebeins

1. to ring in a slow, solemn way
2. in distress, especially financial hardship
3. an accumulation of disintegrated material, or debris
4. help or assistance
5. a type of silk
6. a small, often temporary defensive fortification
7. a cereal grass known for its grain and straw
8. an African antelope having straight or curved horns
9. a group or collection, esp. a fairly large one
10. an advance of funds for services to a government
11. a small bus or car that carries passengers for a low fare
12.  something put together using available materials
13. to honor the memory of, as by a ceremony
14. what flows through the veins of the gods
15. a rustling or swishing, as of a silk skirt
16. a mixture of finely cut vegetables or fruits
17. A ring on an animal's collar, used for attaching a leash
18. a larvae used for fishing bait
19. a member of the military class in feudal Japan
20. a thick creamy potato soup flavored with leeks
21. respect for women
22. a small earthenware container
23. inclined to eat too much
24. extremely chic; very smart, elegant, or sophisticated
25. a storyteller in western Africa
26. to make white; to scald
27. dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony
28. a type of beach grass
29. a cow slaughtered at younger than three years
30. the Georgian alphabet
31. brothers
32. a compound word where the first describes the second
33. an evergreen plant having white or pinkish flowers
34. to fail to keep or maintain
35. a thinly pounded medallion of beef
36. eating utensils made of turned wood
37. an introductory remark or preface
38. making a shrill, howling sound
39. large, heavy, thick-skinned plant-eating mammal
40. in Scottish folklore, the term for cat
41. the secret publication of government-banned literatur
42. of being
43. cylindrical, but slightly tapering at both ends
44. an Indonesian percussion orchestra
45. the drink of the gods; the sweetish liquid in flowers
46. a household where everyone is married to everyone else
47. a satire, traditionally posted in a public place.
48. a curved knife used by the Chee
49. a coin equal to five cents
50. burial
51. a person regarded as weak or timid
52. a fungus that infects frogs
53. a type of phosphorescence over swamps