A Couple of Words With Trump & N. Korea
In searching around for a theme I looked at the big news of the week which was the American deal with North Korea. Inspiration didn't really strike me, so there a just a couple of snippets to be used as a quiz.
Your rack is: N K O R E A ? Can you use the blank to make a 7 letter word?
You have the letters T R U M P on your rack and want to get rid of those letters and keep the other ones (in other words you want to dump trump) Obviously you might play the word TRUMP, or play up to an S to make TRUMPS, but there is only one other word made using a letter on the board. To help you out, the letter you will need is an O. See if you can find a 6 letter word with O T R U M P
On a completely unrelated subject I thought I would do a list of 7 letter words with two I’s but without using endings like –ING, -IER and –IES.
These 53 words are all meet those conditions, don’t have another anagram, and are still reasonably probable combinations of letters. I hope that you will learn a few new words, but it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of the ones you already knew. It is easy to miss them when you are looking for the more usual endings.
DIANOIA Perception of experience as an inferior form of knowledge
DIARIAN Pertaining to a diary
ANTIAIR Directed against attacking aircraft
BAINITE A byproduct of steel treatment
ROBINIA A genus of leguminous (seed bearing) trees
CILIATE Possessing cilia (short hairlike projections)
DENARII The plural of denarius, a Roman coin
INEDITA Unpublished literary works
PERIDIA The plural of peridium (a coating on a fungus)
GONIDIA The plural of gonidium (an algal cell on a lichen)
LIANOID Like a liana (a climbing plant)
SIALOID Like saliva
DISTAIN To stain or sully
DIARIST Someone who keeps a diary
FILIATE To bring into close association
IMAGINE To form a mental picture
KAINITE A chemical found in salt deposits and used as a fertiliser
RAMILIE A type of wig
ANILINE A product of coal tar used in dyeing
AIRLINE An air transportation system
VIRELAI An old French lyric form with two rhyme stanzas and short lines
AIRTIME The period of time for a broadcast
EPINAOI The plural of epinaos (a rear entrance hall)
INERTIA The tendency of a body to resist acceleration
AXINITE A type of silicate
LIAISON A means of maintaining communication
NAUTILI The plural of nautilus (a spiral shelled mollusc)
LIATRIS An American plant with small white flowers
AMORINI An Italian word for a lover
NOTITIA A roll, list or register
NIOBITE The chief ore of niobium, a ductile transition metal
ERICOID Having heather-like leaves
EIRENIC Conducive of, or working towards, peace
ONEIRIC Belonging to dreams
DIETINE A minor or local assembly of people
DOMINIE A schoolmaster or tutor
URIDINE A structural sub-unit of nucleic acids
DIORITE A crystalline granular igneous rock
IVORIED Made like ivory
TOLIDIN A chemical compound
SORDINI The plural of sordino (a mute or damper for a musical instrument)
DINITRO Having two nitro groups
EMERITI The plural of emeritus (a retired person who retains a title)
INVITEE Someone who is invited
LIGNITE Brown coal
INHERIT To receive by legal succession
ETIOLIN A yellow pigment found in plants starved of light
OLIVINE A mineral, iron and magnesium silicate
INUTILE Useless or unprofitable
LIRIOPE An Asian herb
RILIEVO The projection of figures or forms from a flat background
RIPIENO A musical passage which is performed by the whole cast
SIRLOIN A cut of beef from the upper part of the loin
All right, how did you go with this week’s quiz?
?NKOREA is a tough rack. It only makes the one word - KARENGO - a red New Zealand seaweed prized as a delicacy by the Maori. I thought it was curious that I hadn’t heard of it. However, when I researched it on the internet I found it was closely related to the Japanese NORI and the Welsh LAVER. I had heard of both and knew that there was a Welsh delicacy called LAVERBREAD which was really a seaweed. Isn’t it weird that I knew about the foreign edible seaweeds, but not the local one?
O TRUMP makes the word RUMPOT, which is a word to describe an alcoholic, presumably one who is fond of rum. Whatever faults Donald Trump may have, I don’t believe alcoholism is one of them, so:
You heard it here first folks. Fake news! Fake news!
Cheers
Patrick