| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: To appear, as if from thin air to materialize |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: To breathe in & out at an abnormally fast rate hyperventilate |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: For example, to turn the steering wheel too far to the left when your car drifts to the right overcompensate |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $1600: To give human qualities to an animal or an inanimate object anthropomorphize |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | 5-SYLLABLE VERBS $2000: A blow to the head could do this to you, deprive you of the ability to function incapacitate |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: To selfishly take more than one's share, especially of the road hog |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: To live off the expenses of others, giving nothing in return leech (to sponge) |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $1200: To crash into with great force, as when battering down a door ram |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $1600: To deceive or trick outfox (to fox) |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: To hum, buzz or speak in a monotonous tone drone |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $200: To honor, as with one's presence grace |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $400: To put on clothes don |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $600: To pry open jimmy |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To kid around josh |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): To give, like a wish grant |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: Some use their pencil to do this in textbooks to remind themselves of salient points; it can also mean to strongly assert underscore (or underline) |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: It can mean to think or focus really, really hard, or to rally all forces towards one specific goal concentrate |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: To demonstrate the causes & reasons for having done what you did; it can also mean to make righteous in the sight of God justify |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1600: Pronounced one way it's an adjective describing a close friend; pronounced as a verb, it means to imply indirectly or suggest intimate |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $2000: Meaning to understand or take into custody; we hope the police don't do it to you apprehend |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $200: M&M's:
"The milk chocolate ____ in your mouth, not in your hand" melts |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $400: Apple, beginning in the 1990s:
"____ different" Think |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $600: Target:
"____ more.
Pay less." Expect |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $800: Instagram:
"____ and share the world's moments" Capture |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $1000: Jantzen swimwear:
"____ into life" dive |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ____ & ____ $800: Lunar enthusiasts are partial to this alliterative idiom of 2 verbs that refers to any periodic change in size or strength waxing & waning |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: The Piraha people of the Amazon have limited conjugation of verbs, which as a result lack these time-indicating properties tenses |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $200: There are 3 Es in this verb meaning to come into view or rise from water emerge |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $400: "Cease" has 5 letters; this word that's paired with it in a legal term has 6 desist |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $600: The stock markets love this word that can mean, among other things, spend time on & give power to to invest |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $800: The "P" is not silent at the end of this verb meaning to get back your losses to recoup |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1000: As a means of making amends, it's sometimes done to "the beef" to squash the beef |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $400: To change a letter to uppercase, or to take advantage of capitalize |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $800: Containing a body part, this compound word happens when people get together to come up with ideas to brainstorm |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $1200: There's a "Q" in this word meaning to give something up, like a throne relinquish |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $2000: This "milky" verb means to make disparate elements similar homogenize |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $2,400 (Daily Double): Latin for "easy" gives us this verb meaning to assist in the progress of something to facilitate |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: To point someone out in court, as in "Can you ____ the person who dropped the noodles on your head?" identify |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: When you retire a plane or a boat from active service, you do this to it decommission |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: This verb means to overlay, as seen with the photo here superimpose |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $1600: It means to put emphasis on; an old song said to do it to "The Positive" accentuate |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | 4-SYLLABLE VERBS $2000: From the Latin for "leaf", it's what an army might do to reveal enemies among trees defoliate |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: To dig beneath, or to subvert via nefarious activity undermine |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: "Mission: Impossible" often said the secretary might do this, deny knowledge of the team's actions disavow |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1200: The Latin for "speak against" gives us this verb of refutation contradict |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1600: In electronics, it means to increase the current or voltage of something; it can also mean to make anything stronger amplify |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $2000: This word that ends with violence means to rid of misguided notions disabuse |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | VERBS $400: It can mean to fish by towing lures behind a boat, or to make intentional upsetting remarks online to elicit a response troll |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | VERBS $800: When you lie in court under oath, you do this to "yourself" perjure |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | VERBS $1200: To squeeze uncomfortably, like certain snakes or like too tight shoes on your feet constrict |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | VERBS $2000: From Latin for "wave", it means to move in waves or ripples undulate |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | VERBS $3,800 (Daily Double): To speak distinctly & clearly; it can also mean to unite by means of a joint articulate |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $200: It's paired with "forgive" in an idiom meaning you should pretend past wrongs never happened forget |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $400: This word with a double letter pair in the middle can mean to bubble just below boiling or to seethe with inner turmoil simmer |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $800: Disinter is another word for this action of digging something out of the ground to exhume |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1000: To remove a stock from the roster of securities traded on an exchange delist |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 6-LETTER VERBS $1,600 (Daily Double): This word meaning "to interfere" comes from the Latin for "foot" impede |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | REGULAR VERBS $200: I'm here to certify
it means to versify rhyme |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | REGULAR VERBS $400: To cut a material to form something; you can do it to ski turns, meat & statues carve |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | REGULAR VERBS $600: To beat with a strap, or what a party leader does to get votes lined up in Congress whip |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | REGULAR VERBS $800: This mild word that can follow goal- & bar-means to offer formally for acceptance, like with a resignation tender |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | REGULAR VERBS $1000: From the Latin for "price", it's what your new car's value does shortly after you drive off the lot depreciate |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $600: In his 1917 poem "Dulce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen tried several verbs about being stricken by this: gargling, gurgling, goggling mustard gas |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $400: When followed by "down", this clothing accessory means "to eat quickly" scarf |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $800: Railway job meaning to skillfully make sure of a certain outcome to engineer |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $1200: Disappears, like "The Lady" does in a Hitchcock film title Vanishes |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $1600: This 6-letter verb means "to shun", though it sounds like it means to chomp on something eschew |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $2000: As a verb, this piece of furniture means "to express indirectly", as with a threat couch |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $200: To solemnly pledge to undertake an action vow |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $400: To deplete something's energy or weaken it gradually sap |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $600: To clear a pool table by hitting all the balls in the pockets in a row run |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $800: To tell an insignificant or childish lie fib |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | 3-LETTER VERBS $1000: To add additional unjustified expenses to an account pad |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $200: Sometimes combined with "guess", it means to calculate approximately the amount of something estimate |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: From Greek for "existing at the same time", it's to match one's actions to the timing of another's synchronize |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $600: Lyft says "45% of Americans have a gig on the side to" do this to their income supplement |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: In psychology, to contribute to a loved one's pathological behavior enable |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1000: An alternate term for a crossroads takes its name in part from this verb meaning what happens when 2 lines cross each other intersect |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $200: Similar to mince, it means to chop food into small cubes dice |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $400: Culinary words for adding a last bit of color or flavor (mmm... parsley) include finish & this -ish verb garnish |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $600: To pané a food is to coat it in these bread crumbs |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $800: To soak meat for several hours in a mix of oil, acid & flavorings--in the fridge, never at room temp marinate |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | COOKING VERBS $1000: To cook or stew gently just below the boiling point simmer |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF SUFFIX $200: Alphabet, bowdler, cannibal & many others become verbs with this suffix -ize |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: To defeat, or to hit repeatedly like a drum beat (bang) |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: To smooth metal with a tool, or to put a document in its proper place file |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $600: To inspect a place as a preliminary to robbery case |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: To portion out food, or to gossip to dish |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1000: To stride up & down, or to set the speed of a race pace |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $400: A lawyer doing this is generally allowed to ask leading questions, since he or she generally didn't call the witness cross-examining |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $800: It can mean to inquire too closely into another's private affairs, or to use force to open or move something to pry |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $1200: This verb precedes "me this" in a catchphrase of a guy in a question mark suit riddle |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $1600: A synonym for "canvass", it means to survey the opinions of a group to gain insight to poll |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $2000: The second syllable of a 4-syllable synonym for "curious" sounds the same as this questioning word quiz |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $400: To suffer a temporary loss of consciousness black out |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $800: To purposely abandon someone on an island maroon |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $1200: Chili recipes say to do this to the ground beef brown |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $1600: To give permission to start something, like when a studio says you can start making the movie greenlight |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | COLORFUL VERBS $2000: To cut in a zigzag pattern, like with certain shears pinking |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BIRDLIKE VERBS $200: To send a short message on an Internet microblogging site tweet |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BIRDLIKE VERBS $400: An inefficient way to type is to "hunt" & do this peck |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BIRDLIKE VERBS $600: To concoct a secret plan hatch |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BIRDLIKE VERBS $800: To worry persistently in a gloomy way brood |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BIRDLIKE VERBS $1000: To talk softly & amorously is "to bill &" do this coo |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | "A_D" VERBS $200: Shortened a word abbreviated |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | "A_D" VERBS $400: Spirited someone away, likely illegally abducted |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | "A_D" VERBS $600: Turned away one's eyes, from the Latin for "to turn" averted |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | "A_D" VERBS $800: Aided or assisted, specifically in the commission of a crime abetted |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | "A_D" VERBS $1000: Played piano at the soprano recital accompanied |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $400: A common sign at a checkout counter is "Take a penny," do this leave a penny |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $800: The Bible says, "The Lord hath" done this to "thee to be a peculiar people unto himself" chosen |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $1200: Combine a verb & its past tense & you get this playground item a seesaw |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $1600: Irregular synonym for "vended" sold |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | IRREGULAR VERBS $2000: This past participle ends with a firearm begun |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | ANIMAL VERBS $200: To remove a stain using an absorbent item, or to live at the expense of others sponge |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: To flutter your eyelashes to bat |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | ANIMAL VERBS $600: Aggressively peddle goods in public by calling out to hawk (your wares) |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: Defeat an opponent overwhelmingly, especially by shutting them out skunk |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | ANIMAL VERBS $1000: A weasel-like animal gives us this verb meaning to uncover or bring to light by searching ferret |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $200: While cooking meat keep it moist by doing this, pouring juices or melted fat over it baste |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $400: From the French for "jumped", it means to fry food quickly in just a little fat or oil sauté |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $600: Some Frigidaire wall ovens beep when this early-stage recipe instruction is finished & the food can go in pre-heating |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $800: Please explain better that you know this verb means to melt butter to sort out impurities clarify |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $1000: As its name indicates, this verb involves bringing to 212 degrees, but only for a brief period parboil |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $200: To identify the nature of a person's illness diagnose |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $400: It can mean to work jointly on a scientific activity; or in wartime, to cooperate traitorously with an enemy collaborate |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $600: It can mean to present the way something works, or to publicly protest demonstrate |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $800: Samuel Taylor Coleridge defended this then-new verb, saying that to "render intense" just didn't work intensify |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | VERBS $1000: This 4-letter verb means "to beget"; use it as a noun when addressing a king sire |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 2 VERBS IN ONE $200: To travel by taking rides from passing cars hitchhike |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 2 VERBS IN ONE $400: Akin to saute, you do this to veggies in a wok stir-fry |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 2 VERBS IN ONE $600: To get behind the wheel of a Chrysler you're thinking of buying & take it for a spin test-drive |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 2 VERBS IN ONE $800: To use a foot & a pedal to get a motorcycle going kick-start |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 2 VERBS IN ONE $1000: To windmill, headspin or elbow hop like a b-boy breakdance |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $400: Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go chug-a-lug |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $800: This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer" powwow |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $1200: To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight maintain |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $1600: From the Chinese, it means to show excessive subservience kowtow |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | INTERNAL RHYME VERBS $2000: To spend time with the rich & famous hobnob |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $400: Cease to be / change the color die/dye |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $800: Reveal one's soul / endure hardship to bare/bear |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $1200: Make into sets of 2 / remove an apple peel pair and pare |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $1600: Listened to / assemble the flock heard/herd |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HOMOPHONIC VERBS $2000: To lament one's fate / taken care of, as the lawn moan/mown |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $800: To prepare a pork loin for sale, or to make a mess of a project butcher |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1200: This rural job means to guide carefully, as in "the Speaker will need to ____ the bill through Congress" shepherd |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1600: To admit to a misdeed or to enter a guilty plea cop |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $2000: In a 1999 speech Nelson Mandela said his government would do this "on" toward national reconciliation soldier |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $200: To propel a kayak, or the implement employed to achieve it paddle |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $400: 3-letter word meaning to tint a garment, or what you use to do so dye |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $600: To recite with musical intonation, perhaps in the style of a Gregorian one chant |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $800: This triple meter ballroom dance is also a verb meaning to walk with casual assurance waltz |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO VERBS $1000: Something you inflate, or to gain weight as if you've been inflated balloon |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | EATING VERBS $200: To alter food by the action of stomach chemicals so that it can be absorbed digest |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | EATING VERBS $400: To snack continuously, the way an antelope nibbles along open grasslands graze |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | EATING VERBS $600: As a noun, it means fabric worn around the neck; as a verb, it means to eat quickly scarf |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | EATING VERBS $800: It can mean a pickle topping for hot dogs or to eat with great pleasure relish |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | EATING VERBS $1000: This verb that starts with a silent letter means to chew something that resists being chewed, like a dog's bone gnaw |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | ECOLOGY $400: Recycle forms a trio with these 2 verbs to make up the 3 Rs of the environment reduce and reuse |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $400: To make a symbol on something Mark |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To move up & down as if in a boxing ring Bob |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1200: To make your way through not-so-deep water Wade |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1600: To touch all the bags in baseball (to) Homer |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $2000: To throw something, or to strike gently under the chin Chuck |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $200: Ms. Grafton, or what she might do if you plagiarized one of her novels sue |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $400: To pursue, like NASCAR's Mr. Elliott does to make the Sprint Cup round of 16 chase |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $600: To sing joyously, like Ms. Kane might at Yuletide carol |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $800: To banter in a good-natured way, like Mr. Gad in a film comedy josh |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | FAMOUS FIRST NAMES AS VERBS $1000: To favor or to adorn, like Ms. Slick did with her vocal presence for Jefferson Airplane grace |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $200: Meaning "roused from sleep", it has a new adjectival meaning referring to social awareness woke |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $400: When summoned, Lurch of "The Addams Family" would use this 2-word phrase including an irregular verb you rang? |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $600: In the King James Version of the Bible, Arphaxad did it to Salah, Salah to Eber, Eber to Peleg... begat |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IRREGULAR VERBS $800: It's the past tense of the verb that comes before "and ye shall find" sought |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | 10-LETTER VERBS $200: To take a document off the secret list & make it public declassify |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | 10-LETTER VERBS $400: Sorry, ma'am, I need to do this, seize your Subaru to pursue those criminals commandeer |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | 10-LETTER VERBS $600: To shed too much light on film while taking a photograph is to do this overexpose |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | 10-LETTER VERBS $800: You need a body part to spell this term for what a gawker does passing a crash scene on the highway rubberneck |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | 10-LETTER VERBS $1000: When you digest, you break down food; when you do this, you process the resulting chemicals for your body to use metabolize |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BEASTLY VERBS $200: To keep all of something for oneself to hog |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BEASTLY VERBS $400: To quickly & hungrily devour all your food wolf (it down) |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BEASTLY VERBS $600: To bother someone repeatedly, like Wisconsin's state animal badger |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BEASTLY VERBS $800: To
extend
one's
neck
for
a better
view crane |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | BEASTLY VERBS $1000: To habitually get money from someone without doing anything in return for it to leech (or to sponge) |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $200: "____ the Rising Sun" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard" Killing the Rising Sun |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $400: "The Cat Who ____ Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein walks |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $600: "____ with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs Running |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $800: "Hannibal ____" by Thomas Harris Rising |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $1000: "We Need to ____ About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver talk |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | PROVERBIAL VERBS $200: "If it ain't broke, don't ____ it" fix |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | PROVERBIAL VERBS $400: "____ not, want not" waste |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | PROVERBIAL VERBS $600: "He who ____ last, ____ longest" laughs |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | PROVERBIAL VERBS $800: "____ what you preach" practice |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | PROVERBIAL VERBS $1000: "Curses, like chickens, come home to ____" roost |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $400: To leave your waiter 45% instead of 15% overtip |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $800: Some play ball with reckless this, which can also mean "to forsake" abandon |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $1200: To free from ambiguity is this "C" verb, you "C" what I mean? clarify |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $1600: To walk or strut with defiance, man that guy's got some serious... swagger |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $2000: What a sad dog may do; T.S. Eliot made it the opposite of a bang whimper |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | "A"LPHABETICAL VERBS $400: To totally nail a test or a golf hole ace |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | "A"LPHABETICAL VERBS $800: To take on a new cause or a new kid adopt |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | "A"LPHABETICAL VERBS $1200: To stop a mission before it is completed abort |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | "A"LPHABETICAL VERBS $1600: To detest abhor |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | "A"LPHABETICAL VERBS $2000: It means "to attach" & contains a synonym for "to repair" affix |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | PAST TENSES $1200: Verbs with their present & past tenses the same include this one meaning "chose the wrong actor" miscast |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $400: To consider evidence carefully in the mind, or to put it on a scale weigh |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $800: To decide by reasoning; it can also mean to finish conclude |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $1200: To memorize something exactly is to learn it "by heart" or "by" this, meaning as a result of repeated study rote |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $1600: To join different ideas together into a coherent whole; chemists do it to create new compounds to synthesize |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | THINKING VERBS $2000: Also a way to collect information, it means to gather bits of grain left by reapers glean |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | 5-LETTER VERBS $200: To make a marriage void annul |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | 5-LETTER VERBS $400: To remove oneself from a failing aircraft eject |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | 5-LETTER VERBS $600: To verbally exaggerate one's own accomplishments boast |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | 5-LETTER VERBS $800: To vote for more than one party is to do this to a ticket split |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | 5-LETTER VERBS $1000: Also a type of vessel, it means to burst in upon barge |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: To organize papers, or to administer to one's ragged nails file |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: To heat & sweeten a beverage with spice mull |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | 4-LETTER VERBS $600: To plow the soil till |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: To thin the herd by removing inferior stock cull |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1000: To ward off blows, or to take care of oneself fend |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $200: Separate gold from gravel in an open metal dish by washing pan |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $400: Of snarf, sniggle or snuffle, the one that means to fish for eels sniggle |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $600: Whether you add "un" to it or not, it means to separate or undo the threads of a piece of clothing ravel |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $800: This animal verb means to defeat someone overwhelmingly, especially if they are kept from scoring skunk |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $1000: A school attended by Lord Byron & Winston Churchill; as a verb, it means to inflict great stress harrow |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | "OO" RAH $2000: Imperative & subjunctive are 2 examples of this property of verbs mood |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: Used especially of stallions, it means to father a child sire |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: As a noun, it's the ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar; as a verb, it means to worry fret |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 4-LETTER VERBS $600: Helen Reddy sang, "I am woman, hear me" do this roar |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: To decrease gradually in intensity, such as the moon in passing from full to new wane |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1000: Itemize, or what a ship does when it tilts to one side list |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BODY PART VERBS $200: To take responsibility for "the bill" to foot |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BODY PART VERBS $400: As a verb, it's a way to force your way "in" to something; as a noun, it's the thugs who might help you muscle |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BODY PART VERBS $600: To prepare yourself; perhaps with facts; or perhaps with weapons arm |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BODY PART VERBS $800: To hit or bang on the head to brain |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | BODY PART VERBS $1000: To identify a criminal to the authorities to finger |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | VERBS WITH OTHER MEANINGS $200: To hurry, or a grassy marsh plant rush |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | VERBS WITH OTHER MEANINGS $400: To read over carefully, or a tiny skin opening pore |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | VERBS WITH OTHER MEANINGS $600: To take off paint, or a series of comic panels strip |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | VERBS WITH OTHER MEANINGS $800: To send a package, or Sir Galahad's choice of wear mail |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | VERBS WITH OTHER MEANINGS $1000: To overcome a foe, or a division of a musical measure beat |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fix prices or wages at a current level, or to immobilize, as with fear freeze |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $800: To yell to catch a taxi driver's attention hail |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1200: To sing lead for a rock band front |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1600: To pour in a fine stream, like syrup over pancakes drizzle |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $2000: To send too much fuel to the carburetor, causing an unsuccessful ignition flood |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | "AD" VERBS $200: To direct a speech at someone address |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | "AD" VERBS $400: To officiate at the taking of an oath administer |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | "AD" VERBS $600: The constitution says "Neither house...shall" do this for more than 3 days without permission from the other adjourn |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | "AD" VERBS $800: To make someone confused addle |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | "AD" VERBS $1000: To reprimand or urge to duty admonish |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: As a noun, it's a chickenlike game bird; as a verb, it means to complain or grumble grouse |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: Mimic or imitate ape |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $1200: A gastropod, or a verb meaning to strike heavily, as with a fist slug |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $1600: To tease the hair in order to give it volume rat |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: Bamboozle, or intimidate by a display of power or importance buffalo |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $400: To sip a drink slowly, making it last longer to nurse |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $800: To alter something in a tricky way; it may be done to a baseball or to a photo doctor |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1200: TV cops get frustrated when a suspect in custody does this 2-word slang phrase meaning "get an attorney" lawyer up |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1600: To steer, as a captain may steer a ship through rough waters pilot |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $2000: As a noun it means a clergyman; as a verb it's to attend to another's needs minister |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | 4 LETTERS, 2 Ns $400: Meaning "not any", it's been used with both singular & plural verbs since the 9th century none |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $200: Give life to; Warner Bros. cartoonists did it to Bugs Bunny animate |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $400: Sprout like a plant, or lie on a couch like a useless slug, watching TV & eating chips vegetate |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $600: Make beautiful, or add fictitious details embellish |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $800: To lighten a ship, you might do this, cast overboard something that's not needed jettison |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "road", it means to depart from the norm deviate |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | AFFIX THE SUFFIX $800: To make "alphabet" & "digit" into verbs -ize |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | POETIC VERBS $400: "Because I could not ____ for death" stop |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | POETIC VERBS $800: "I ____ the body electric" sing |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: Pester, or equip a room with electronic listening devices bug |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: Stubbornly oppose a trend, or leap upward arching the back like a bronco buck |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ANIMAL VERBS $1200: Pursue relentlessly, as a certain type of dog does hound |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ANIMAL VERBS $1600: To drain the essence of, or to bleed via a certain bloodsucking worm leech |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: Refuse to talk, like a beach creature clam |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: To misdirect one's energies is to do this "up the wrong tree" bark |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: Fill a hole tightly, or promote a product by mentioning it in the media plug |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1200: To dip a food item into liquid, such as a donut into milk dunk |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1600: To flick the middle finger from the thumb tip to the base of the thumb, producing this sharp noise snap |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | 4-LETTER VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): As a noun, it's a building where grain is ground into flour; as a verb, it means to do the grinding mill |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AD VERBS $200: American Express warned, "Don't ____ home without it" leave |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AD VERBS $400: Charmin toilet paper implored, "Please don't ____ the Charmin" squeeze |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AD VERBS $600: Chiffon margarine scolded, "It's not nice to ____ Mother Nature" fool |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AD VERBS $800: United Negro College Fund declared, "A mind is a terrible thing to ____" waste |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | AD VERBS $1000: For Palmolive dishwashing liquid, Madge said, "You're ____ing in it" soak |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GET YOUR VERBS MOVING $200: To run at a moderate pace, or to give a slight push to something, like your memory jog |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GET YOUR VERBS MOVING $400: To jump, especially with the help of a pole, as in the Olympics vault |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GET YOUR VERBS MOVING $600: Also the name of a ballroom dance, it means to move along in a breezy, conspicuous manner waltz |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GET YOUR VERBS MOVING $800: Drop a letter from what lovers might do to marry in secret & you'll get this easy gait lope |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | GET YOUR VERBS MOVING $1000: An early form of this word meaning to walk with an arrogant strut was used by Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" swagger |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $400: Tell a little lie fib |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $800: Write something down quickly, like an address jot |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $1200: A playing card, it can also mean to easily pass a test ace |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $1600: Transmit a copy of a document over a telephone line fax |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $2000: To engage in pugilism, or a cardboard container box |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | CAMERAS $400: These 2 verbs go together to describe cameras that don't make you fiddle with focus point and shoot |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $400: "____ by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Stopping |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $800: "I ____ Lonely as a Cloud" Wandered |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $1200: "She ____ in Beauty" Walks |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $1600: "To an Athlete ____ Young" Dying |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $2000: "On First ____ into Chapman's Homer" Looking |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | SPANISH VERBS $400: Around siesta time, dormir, meaning this, is the operative verb to sleep |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | SPANISH VERBS $800: Escribir means to do this; you'll have to do it during Final Jeopardy! to write |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | SPANISH VERBS $1200: Cambiar means this, something you might have to do to a tire, a diaper or to money to change |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | SPANISH VERBS $1600: Most people just want to vivir, this to live |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | SPANISH VERBS $2000: Pensar means to do this; people who do it well enough may go into a "tank" to think |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $200: Featured some soccer moms: "____ it Like Beckham" bend |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $400: Kevin Costner on the range: "____ With Wolves" dances |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $600: A 1950s classic: "How to ____ a Millionaire" How to Marry a Millionaire |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $800: Bogart pulled no punches: "The Harder They ____" fall |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MOVIE VERBS $1000: Warren Beatty as a Rams QB: "Heaven ____ ____" can wait |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $200: To put on the character & appearance of someone else, like a police officer, in which case it's a crime impersonate |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $400: 3-letter animal verb meaning "take more than your share of" hog |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $800: Verb commonly used with "a letter", "a lecture" & "a baby" deliver |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): To express one's own opinions, as if in a newspaper you ran editorialize |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $1000: From the German for "punish", it's to fire on ground troops from a plane strafe |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $200: To heat water to 212 degrees boil |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $400: 2-word term meaning to cook by submerging in hot fat deep fry |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $600: From the French, it means to remove bones, especially the backbones, from fish filet |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $800: From the Greek for "to roast", it's to cook with dry oven heat bake |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COOKING VERBS $1000: To cook sugar until it forms a brown syrup to caramelize |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $200: This potato chip brand sounds like it's got some carpet work to do Lay's |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $400: Brand of diapers that means "treats with too much indulgence" Pampers |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $800: We wish this stain remover would keep it down Shout |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $1000: This car rental company sounds like it uses torture equipment Hertz |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 6-letter telecom company sounds fleet of foot Sprint |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | SONG VERBS $200: Dionne Warwick:
"I ____ A Little Prayer" Say |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | SONG VERBS $400: Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee:
"____ Ya Tailfeather" Shake |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | SONG VERBS $600: Young M.C.:
"____ A Move" Bust |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | SONG VERBS $800: Crowded House:
"Don't ____ It's Over" Dream |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | SONG VERBS $1000: Sheryl Crow:
"____ Up The Sun" Soak |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | ADS WITH VERBS $200: The U.S. Army:
"___ all that you can ___" be |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | ADS WITH VERBS $400: McDonald's:
"You ___ a break today" deserve |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | ADS WITH VERBS $600: Avis:
"We ___ harder" try |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | ADS WITH VERBS $800: IBM:
"___"
Apple:
"___ different" think |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | ADS WITH VERBS $1000: GM:
"___ the USA in your Chevrolet" see |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | VERBS $200: A way to cook eggs, or to take game or fish illegally poach |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | VERBS $400: This percussion instrument is also a verb that means to teach by repetition drum |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | VERBS $600: To sit on eggs, or to worry brood |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | VERBS $800: The last name of golfer Rocco, it means to help settle a dispute Mediate |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | VERBS $1000: This verb means to use another's work without permission or to attack a ship at sea to pirate |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: "Like it or" do this, meaning take or endure it lump it |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: "And when two lovers woo they still say 'I love you' on that you can" do this rely |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1200: To stop a leak or publicize a product plug |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1600: It's said that "Horses sweat, men perspire, women" do this glow |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): It means "to strongly encourage", & all its letters are found in the word encourage urge |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $400: To mix a salad or flip a coin toss |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $800: Not spring or fall but this verb can mean either "to spice" or "to make more experienced" season |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): Career can mean "rush headlong"; change the last letter to get this, which means the same careen |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $1200: This type of pad or pillow is also a verb meaning "to absorb shock", as of "the blow" cushion |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | VERBS $2000: With a short "A", it's the part of a sentence including the verb; with a long "A", a verb meaning "to base upon something" predicate |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $400: 4-syllable synonym for "to count", from Latin for "to count" enumerate |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $800: This word for a type of running is from a word meaning "jump", & it's a talent that long jumpers need to get distance sprint |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $1200: You can fluff pillows or do this, also meaning "chubby" plump |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $1600: Appropriate last name of Captain William of 18th century Virginia, who promoted vigilante justice Lynch |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | VERBS $2000: As a verb, this British nationality means to put an end to something abruptly Scotch |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $200: Featuring Eric Clapton:
"While My Guitar Gently ___" Weeps |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $400: From "Purple Rain":
"I ___ 4 U" Would Die |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $600: CSN&Y:
"___ Your Children" Teach |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $800: Covered in 2004:
"___ A Little Bit" Give |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $1000: A Supremes classic:
"You ___ Love" Can't Hurry |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | VERBS $400: A verb meaning "to forbid", or a leading anti-perspirant ban |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | VERBS $1200: You can do it to a ball, your voice, or a game you're losing on purpose throw |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | VERBS $1,600 (Daily Double): This short form of a Biblical name can also mean to banter with or tease josh |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | VERBS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands behind a woodworking project.) You can shape moldings to fit by mitering, or by doing this, a term you'll just have to deal with coping (cope accepted) |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | VERBS $2000: "Happy" manual term meaning to extend hearty, perhaps insincere greetings glad-handing |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | GRAMMAR $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a classroom.) In one type of sentence diagram, these descriptive or limiting words, like adjectives & adverbs, go under subjects & verbs modifiers |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $1600: Adjectives describe nouns & pronouns; these words, like very & quickly, can modify adjectives & verbs adverbs |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LATIN CLASS $1600: Accusative (for direct objects of verbs) & dative (for indirect) are 2 of Latin's several of these cases |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: To selfishly take more than one's share, especially of the road hog |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: To live off the expenses of others, giving nothing in return leech or sponge |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | ANIMAL VERBS $1200: To crash into with great force, as when battering down a door ram |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | ANIMAL VERBS $1600: To deceive or trick fox or outfox |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: To hum, buzz or speak in a monotonous tone drone |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | VERBS $200: As a noun, he calls signals for the plays in the huddle; as a verb, it means to direct the offense quarterback |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | VERBS $400: To tamper with something, or to behave in an "apish" manner monkey (around) |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | VERBS $600: It's a synonym for "efface" that also rhymes with it deface (erase) |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | VERBS $800: From the Old Norse for "to bathe", it means to lie on the beach & soak up the warm rays bask |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | VERBS $1000: Often used to mean "imply", it really means to draw a conclusion from what another has implied infer |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | ANIMAL VERBS $200: Flutter, like eyelashes bat |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: To decide irrevocably, like someone's fate seal |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | ANIMAL VERBS $600: In cooking, to cut open & spread flat, as with shrimp or steak butterfly |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $200: This automatic transmission setting can also mean to kiss in a secluded spot park |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew sitting in front of a table with a checkerboard) It's the action I'm performing, giving my opponent a more powerful piece kinging |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $600: To quote someone, or to give him a speeding ticket cite |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $800: As a noun, it's seen on crowded freeways; as a verb, it means to deal in possibly illegal substances traffic |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $1000: An incoming U.S. president swears to preserve, protect & do this to the Constitution defend |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow & keep under surveillance tail |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: It follows pit, prat & rain fall |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $600: (I'm NFL defensive end Kevin Carter) One of my favorite words, it means to tackle a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage sack |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: Travel on foot, or go out on strike walk |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | 4-LETTER VERBS $1000: To rain in a fine shower, or moisturize with a fine spray of water mist |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | VERBS $400: A classic musical taught "How to" do this "in Business Without Really Trying" Succeed |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | VERBS $800: You "jump rope", but you do this to "frog" leap |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | VERBS $1200: Rotate a movie camera or give a bad review to the finished film pan |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | VERBS $1600: Crooks do it to the joint they intend to rob; beermakers do it to their bottles case |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | VERBS $2000: "Think" to a Southerner; it also means to estimate or count reckon |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $200: Pass food or drink through the mouth & throat swallow |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $400: If "ruffed" up, you might complain or grumble as this bird's name suggests grouse |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $600: Mindlessly repeat the words of others parrot |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $800: Figuratively, to prod someone into action goose |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $1000: Flutter, as in a candle flicker |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEASTLY VERBS $400: To use a concealed microphone like a member of the order Hemiptera to bug |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEASTLY VERBS $800: To continually nag a spouse like a Gallus domesticus to henpeck |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEASTLY VERBS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stretches to read over Cheryl's shoulder.) It's to do what I'm doing, like a bird of the family Gruidae to crane |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEASTLY VERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): To treat somebody like a celebrity like a Panthera leo to lionize |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | BEASTLY VERBS $2000: To categorize something into a narrow slot without a great deal of thought like a Columba livia to pigeonhole |
| #3891, aired 2001-07-02 | VERBIAGE $300: The verbs in the title "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" are in this grammatical voice the passive voice |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $200: Imitate or mimic ape |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: Squirm out of, as an obligation weasel |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $600: Nag or pester persistently badger |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $800: Gloat, boast or exult crow |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $1000: Support or carry, as weight or responsibility bear |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $100: According to the title of a 1992 film "White Men Can't" do this Jump |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: TV game show host Martindale Wink |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $300: This animal verb means to down your food voraciously Wolf |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: What a barber does, or the "joint" in which he overcharges for the service Clip |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | 4-LETTER VERBS $500: A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints Dust |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $200: Salute, or call out to get a cabbie's attention hail |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fall in great quantities, like confetti in a parade rain |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $600: To overwhelm with flattery or insincere talk snow |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $800: Frost a cake, or clinch a victory ice |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | WEATHER VERBS $1000: To face, as property does on a lake front |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | SPANISH GRAMMAR $100 (Daily Double): Verbs are divided according to whether this form ends in -ar, -er or -ir Infinitive |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | BIRD VERBS $100: Evade by crouching duck |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | BIRD VERBS $200: Normally paired with "out", this "fowl" verb means to lose one's nerve chicken |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | BIRD VERBS $300: One who peddles goods by yelling out to potential customers is said to do this hawk |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | BIRD VERBS $400: A long-necked wading bird gave us this verb meaning to stretch one's neck for a better view crane |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | BIRD VERBS $500: As a noun, it's the cry of a rooster; as a verb, it means to exult blatantly over the misfortune of another crow |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | THE END OF THE WORD $400: It's the usual suffix that forms the present participle of verbs -ing |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $200: It's the present tense of the sentence "I have lain." I lie |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $400: Of "hurt", "spurt" or "blurt", the one that stays the same in the past tense Hurt |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $600: This letter hides when "hide" is conjugated in the past tense E |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $800: If you used "brung" in one of your essays, replace it with this word Brought |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | IRREGULAR VERBS $1000: This verb is so irregular, it has 8 different verb forms (one form is in this clue, twice) To be |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | IRREGULAR VERBS $100: Take a shot & give us the irregular past tense of "I take the cake" I took the cake |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | IRREGULAR VERBS $200: For the past tense of "dream", you have your choice of "dreamt" or this regular form dreamed |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | VERBS $200: Snakes, steam kettles & displeased audiences do this incessantly hiss |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | VERBS $400: As a verb, this musical instrument means to proclaim loudly Trumpet |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | VERBS $600: To descend a mountain while secured with a double rope rappel |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | VERBS $800: Water does this to become snow, & thoughts do it to become an idea Crystalize |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | TREE VERBS $200: To stopper a bottle with material from the bark of the oak of the same name cork |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | TREE VERBS $800: It's the verb one might use for tidying up the needles dropped by the tree of the same name sprucing |
| #3035, aired 1997-11-07 | TREE VERBS $1000: To make sticky or to clog, perhaps with the substance taken from the tree gum (up) |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $100: A cod, or to catch a cod Fish |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $200: What belongs to the victor, or what food does when left out spoils |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $300: A jester, or to hoodwink Fool |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $400: A jewelry setting, or to get on a horse Mount |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $500: Home to a smithy, or to make counterfeit bills Forge |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $100: It means to twist, like a road through the mountains snake |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $200: To trick by using sly ingenuity or cunning to outfox |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $300: To trail persistently, like reporters after the president to dog (hound) |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: This simian word means to play with or tamper with something monkey |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | ANIMAL VERBS $500: To bug a native of Wisconsin to badger |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $400: Can, may & should are considered auxiliary ones verbs |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | GUINNESS RECORDS $300: This language invented by Dr. Zadenhof has the fewest irregular verbs—none Esperanto |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | ANIMAL VERBS $100: Tease the hair to make it look thicker rat |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | ANIMAL VERBS $200: Flutter your eyelashes bat |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | ANIMAL VERBS $300: Hold up or support the weight of something bear |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: Take more than one's share of the road hog |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | ANIMAL VERBS $500: Gloat, boast or exult over crow |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | 4-LETTER VERBS $100: To misuse your energy is to do this up the wrong tree bark |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | 4-LETTER VERBS $200: Quickly move the second finger down against the thumb to produce a sharp noise snap |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | 4-LETTER VERBS $300: Most people eat; gourmets do this dine |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | 4-LETTER VERBS $400: A forensic expert will do this to a room to check for fingerprints dust |
| #1849, aired 1992-09-24 | 4-LETTER VERBS $500: To lie in the warmth of the sun, you might do it on the beach in Spain bask |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | ENGLISH CLASS $300 (Daily Double): The inflection of verbs is called conjugation; the inflection of nouns is called this a declension |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $100: Mr. Nolte, or what he shouldn't do when he shaves Nick |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $200: Gregory, or what his chickens might do Peck |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $300: "Fernwood 2-Night" star Martin, or what he could do to his wine Mull |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $400: "Molly Dodd"s Blair, or what her turkey should do in the oven Brown |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $500: "Laredo" actor Neville, or what he might do to his cattle Brand |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $100: Silent screen cowboy Tom, or what many people do at cocktail parties Mix |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $200: Mr. Martindale, or what he might do if he likes you Wink |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $300: Mr. Owens, or what his horse might do to throw him Buck |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $400: E. Howard, or what he'd do stalking game Hunt |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | NAMES THAT ARE VERBS $500: TV "Avenger" Emma, or what she could do in a burlesque show Peel |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | VERBS $100: Gormandizing is doing this to excess eating |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | VERBS $200: This synonym for deduce is spelled the same except for the last letter deduct |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | VERBS $300: Of snitch, snipe or sniggle, the one that can mean to fish for eels sniggle |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | VERBS $400: Officially, to invest someone with ministerial, priestly or rabbinical authority ordaining |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | VERBS $500: Prating is doing this for a long time, for little or no reason talking |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | INTRANSITIVE VERBS $100: To favor a leg when walking to limp |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $200: To list a book's key words, usually alphabetically in the back index |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | INTRANSITIVE VERBS $200: Intransitive verb expected of a bronco in a rodeo event bucking (to buck) |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | INTRANSITIVE VERBS $300: It once meant to lose brightness or courage & still means to lose consciousness to faint |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $400: Literally to cut the leg tendons, it can mean to destroy the efficiency of someone or something to hamstring |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | INTRANSITIVE VERBS $400: For the wind to blow in sudden brief rushes to gust |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | INTRANSITIVE VERBS $500: From Old French "to divide", this verb means to go away or leave to depart |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $600: To lay waste; as a noun, it can be wreaked to havoc |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $800: From German "to announce", it's to announce cards for a score in a card game to meld |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $1000: To cultivate land with a disking device or torment someone with bad news to harrow |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | GRAMMAR $600: Verbs whose past tense forms don't use the "ed", like swam for swim, are called this irregular |
| #690, aired 1987-09-11 | PALINDROMES $600: Of the verbs to have, to do, or to be, the one whose past tense is a palindrome to do |
| #572, aired 1987-02-17 | GRAMMAR $800 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 parts of speech an adverb can modify (2 of) verbs, adjectives & other adverbs |
