| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $200: Mayhem is classified as this type of crime, which kinda rhymes with "dope melody" a felony |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $400: "Check out the" this attention-getter in a song the hook |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $600: Time to rock a mic, like a this, perhaps Gaiseric, a 5th century king of that Germanic people a vandal |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $800: Slang for a convertible car with a soft cover a ragtop |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $1000: Vanilla Ice mysteriously can "flow like" one; it's also wielded by Tashtego a harpoon |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $800: Want the perk of being respected for your vocabulary? Then show us you know that "perk" is short for this small privilege perquisite |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $400: Now found in some dictionaries, IMHO, when used in emails & texting, is short for this phrase in my honest opinion (or in my humble opinion) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $800: Often a misdemeanor, it means to linger in a place for no real reason loiter |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $1200: Mum's a word for this flower with a longer name a chrysanthemum |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $1600: Depending on how you pronounce it, it can be a substance burned for its fragrance, or it can mean to anger someone incense |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Having all 5 vowels in alphabetical order, it means cleverly amusing, but it can also be snarky in tone facetious |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $400: If you know "owt" about England, you know this historic county with its own accent & vocabulary (Yorkshire) York |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $400: It can mean to restrain, or it can be found along a street curb |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $800: To alter in form; results may do this vary |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $1200: Bravery in the line of duty; you can get a medal for it valor |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $1600: Don't be modest or coquettish--say this synonym with confidence coy |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $2000: Related to the guinea pig, the rock this is found in South America the rock cavy |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | VARIETY $600: The name of this daily N.Y. Times vocabulary game is actually a play on the name of the software engineer who created it Wordle |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $200: This rhyming word refers to any time of great success, not a specific 24-hour period heyday |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $400: A hand-held optical instrument lends its name to this adjective referring to a mix of shifting colors a kaleidoscopic |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $600: "O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community ostracize |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $800: Latin loqui, "to speak", gives us the words loquacious, meaning talkative, & this adjective, meaning well spoken eloquent |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $1000: Adventurous artists are described by this hyphenated French word, which used to refer to the leading body of an army avant-garde |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | Xs, THEN Os $400: This synonym for dictionary can also refer to a specialized vocabulary for a field of study a lexicon |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $600: Groot's vocabulary in Guardians 2 is limited; this actor got a script with translations from Groot-speak so his delivery could vary Vin Diesel |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $400: From a word meaning "insect", it's the study of bugs entomology |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $800: Atoms share a pair of electrons in this type of chemical bond covalent |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $1,200 (Daily Double): "Specific" this is the ratio of a substance's density to that of a standard substance, often water gravity |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $1600: In physics, a body at rest is in "static" this if all the forces acting on it cancel each other out equilibrium |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $2000: This slow wobbling of the Earth's axis of rotation completes a cycle every 26,000 years or so precession |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | PUZZLES & GAMES $1600: An '80s game similar to hangman designed to teach French vocabulary & spelling is named for this deadly implement the guillotine |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $400: Heliolatry is the worship of this the Sun |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $800: Derived from French, it's a type of suitcase, or a blended word like smog or brunch portmanteau |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $1200: Some may remember it as a brand of TV; the dictionary defines it as the highest point or apex Zenith |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $1600: German for "time spirit", it's the general mood or feeling of a certain time or era zeitgeist |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | VOCABULARY $2000: Going back to the Latin for "small worm", it's a bright scarlet color vermilion |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $400: Refringent means relating to this bending of light & sound waves that pass from one medium to another refraction |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $800: The Latin root of "journey" also gave us this word for a temporary visit sojourn |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $1200: In Japan a standard way to indicate room size is with the number of these woven straw mats; 6 is medium size tatami |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $1600: The adjective form of a word for an expert craftsman, it tells you that cheese was lovingly handmade artisanal |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $2000: A hillside cable railway; in the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", it's one of a character's favorite words funicular |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title a hat |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole" (Stephen) King |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1600: Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel David Copperfield |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $2000: The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation Catch-22 |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $7,800 (Daily Double): This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating Pollyanna |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $400: As a noun, it's a monetary penalty paid to a court; as an adjective, it describes a pleasing look fine |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $800: Attractive, like Roy Orbison's "Woman" pretty |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $1200: It's the "D" word often found preceding "tones" regarding a melodious voice dulcet |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $1600: Tall & shapely, resembling a marble artwork statuesque |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY $2000: This Spanish word for really beautiful can end in -mo or -ma; the Italian word sounds the same bellisima |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $400: Originally used in gambling, this 2-word term can describe a highly rated stock or a highly rated athletic prospect blue chip |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $800: It means to persecute someone suspected of Communist sympathies, not to put a scarlet worm on a fishhook redbait |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1200: If you're part of a royal family, you are "born to" this color purple |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1600: Preceding "eminence", it means someone who exercises power behind the scenes gray |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $2000: Once a block of worthless material made to look valuable, it now means to shirk a duty, especially in the military goldbrick |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $400: Antediluvian refers to a time in Genesis before this event occurred the flood |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $800: A gourmet is a connoisseur; this related foodie starts with the same 5 letters & prizes quantity over quality a gourmand |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $1200: This word containing a synonym for "big" means "generosity" & was shouted in France when lords were giving gifts to the people largesse |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $1600: It was a music education system developed by a Swiss composer before it was a pop duo eurythmics |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $2000: It means measuring the amount of space & describes the flask seen here volumetric |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORD ORIGINS $800: Cowboy vocabulary from Spanish includes stockade & this other word for an enclosure for horses or cattle a corral |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $400: Alone or preceded by "molly", this verb means to treat in an overindulgent way coddle |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $800: The Bible, including the book of Proverbs, gives us "gird one's" these loins |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $1600: Mawashi is the name for the garment worn by this athlete a sumo wrestler |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $2000: This dish in which chicken is simmered with herbs gets its name from the Italian for "hunter" cacciatore |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $2,400 (Daily Double): The name of this job that provides child care is a French phrase meaning "equal" an au pair |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $400: By definition, it's the oldest age a nonagenarian can be 99 |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $800: The French verb chaloir, "to be concerned", led to this English word meaning coolly indifferent nonchalant |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $1200: From Latin for "not" & "join together", this adjective means refusing to agree to an opinion or course of action noncommittal |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $1600: Noninvasive medical procedures include CT scans, X-rays & this type of 3-D diagnostic viewing that earned a 2003 Nobel Prize MRI |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $2000: Some birds are nonmigratory, including the Anna's variety of this very busy avian a hummingbird |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $400: This word with "moral" in the middle can mean to corrupt as well as to discourage & is the only word Noah Webster coined demoralize |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $800: Of the highest importance, or a movie studio founded in 1912 Paramount |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $1200: Norwegian gave us this word for a ski race with plenty of zigs & zags slalom |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $2000: An 18th c. group of lovers of everything from archaeology to opera introduced this word for one who flits from one interest to another a dilettante |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $3,199 (Daily Double): The Cambridge Dictionary insists, "We imply something by what we say. We" do this "from what somebody else says" infer |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $200: This tasty verb precedes "favor" when you are using flattery as a means of advancement curry |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $400: As a verb, this seasoning means to hit rapidly & repeatedly or to pelt with questions to pepper |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $600: The brown coloring of the coat of the animal seen here gives it this spicy name a cinnamon bear |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $800: The name of this piquant bud also means a crime or an antic caper |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY $1000: This architectural style was popular for houses in Colonial New England the saltbox style |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $400: It's the structure over the entrance of a theater advertising the upcoming show & its performers a marquee |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates using a long pole.) I'm holding a pole that's 7'9" to illustrate the distance between Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert's outstretched fingertips, also known by this bird term wingspan |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $1200: The Latin for "fruit" gives us this term for the knob on the hilt of a sword or the front part of a saddle pommel |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $1600: A short metal-tipped "stick" carried by military officers, or to walk with an arrogant air swagger |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $2000: This plain-woven lightweight cotton fabric is named for an Iraqi city muslin |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $400: I'm very "cross" about this Latin word meaning a vital or pivotal point crux |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $800: Exlex translates as "bound by no" this law |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $1200: Nimbus is this 5-letter object of nature a cloud |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $2000: Meaning an emergency force, "posse" this comitatus |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY? $3,200 (Daily Double): Someone deeply respected due to their serious nature has a lot of this 8- letter Latin term gravitas |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: The stockpile of words that you use vocabulary |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: When Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn need knives, Huck "smouches" some--that is, he gets them this way stealing |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "Ivanhoe" Sir Walter Scott used this to mean to put on clothes in a hurry, not to meet to discuss a football play a huddle |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: "Finnegans Wake" used this word 25 years before the physicists applied it to a "flavored" subatomic particle quark |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: A cutting tool & some body parts are in this word for a surgeon coined by Dickens in "The Pickwick Papers" sawbones |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Hawthorne used "spiracles" to mean airshafts in this novel with another architectural feature in the title The House of Seven Gables |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THROWING VOCABULARY $200: To erect a tent, or to shoot an idea by you pitch |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THROWING VOCABULARY $400: It precedes "-ho" when giving one the boot heave |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THROWING VOCABULARY $600: First name of Senator Grassley, & rapper D Chuck |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THROWING VOCABULARY $800: Slang for a movie, or a light movement "of the wrist" a flick |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | THROWING VOCABULARY $1000: The Highland one is a dance fling |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $400: This espresso drink gets its name from its resemblance to the color of a certain friar's habit cappuccino |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $800: As the name indicates, this word for the tiling behind the stove is to protect the wall from liquids a backsplash |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Age of Innocence" says the hue of this building material "coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce" brownstone |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1600: This South American rodent has velvety-soft fur & can be kept as a pet the chinchilla |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $2000: In Boy Scouting, it's now the next rank earned after scout tenderfoot |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $200: Run it up the pole & salute! Vexillology is the study of these a flag |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $400: The forklike runcible this utensil has several prongs spoon |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $600: French for "to awaken" gives us the word for this bugle call that says it's time to wake up reveille |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $800: This Latin phrase means a writer's or an artist's greatest work a magnum opus |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | VOCABULARY $1000: Add a "Y" to the name of a cotton fabric to get this word meaning cheap or gaudy chintzy |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $200: In parts of the South, bapsousing means to do this by dunking baptizing |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $400: In some places you ditch or skip; in Utah sluff is what you do if you don't go to this school |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $600: A big-in-Wisconsin alternative to "yard sale" or "garage sale", it implies that you pick through the offerings rummage sale |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $800: In the Plains states, a black blizzard was one of these storms a dust storm |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | REGIONAL VOCABULARY $1000: Folks in Portland, Oregon may not go to the beach or to the shore but to this--presumably the left one the coast |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD BRIT LIT $600: Word-hoard the vocabulary |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $200: Russet & tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer Brown |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $400: A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa Rice |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $600: In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage & rank just below prince Duke |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $800: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college Colby |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $1000: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece a reed |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $200: In Britain this word describes the younger of 2 brothers; in college it's a mini-major minor |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Carl Sagan defined this word as "the opposite of chaos" cosmos |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $600: This word means "hidden" when it goes before "motives"; it can also mean "happening later" ulterior |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $800: Latin medeor, "to heal", gives us this word for a cure remedy |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $1000: Describing a sharp tone, this 6-letter adjective is also a verb meaning "to scream" shrill |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | CELEBRATING MISTER ROGERS $600: Mister Rogers got to meet Koko, a gorilla with a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words in this form of communication sign language |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $200: It's the resistance that opposes the motion of one surface across another friction |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $400: A
cone-
shaped
deposit of
calcium salts
that builds up
from a cave floor stalagmite |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $600: This adjective from the Greek for "moving" describes the mechanical energy of an object due to motion kinetic |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $800: (Sarah shows an insect on the monitor.) This section of an insect's body takes its name from the Latin for "breastplate" thorax |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $1000: In an experiment, the group used for comparison is called this control |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $200: Pre-steak sauce, this alphanumeric term meant "first class" for ships at Lloyd's of London A1 |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $400: A payment to an insurance company; as an adjective, it means "more expensive" a premium |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $600: This 5-letter prefix can be followed by -dor, -did, -diforous, or, in a sweetener, -da splen- |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $800: Your social standing could be described as this, the uppermost part of the cabinet or dresser top shelf (or top drawer) |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $1000: This "P" word can mean an example of excellence--like one "of virtue" paragon |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $400: If your kids lost their inheritance because of your crimes, it was known as "corruption of" this fluid blood |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $800: Used in relation to the census, it's a fancy 11-letter word for "act of counting" enumeration |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $1200: This word for a periodical is used in reference to the storage of weapons a magazine |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $1600: The founders used "impost" to mean this 3-letter imposition tax |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $2000: This word simply means profit or compensation for an office--its "clause" was in the news in 2017 emoluments |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $400: As an adjective, it means of the body; as a noun, a noncommissioned officer corporal |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $800: A glass bottle for your science experiment, or a flat metal bottle for your nip of booze a flask |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $1200: "Bovine" term for the triangular frame at a locomotive's front--a word we hope is never used literally a cowcatcher |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $1600: The "I" has it, it meaning to sacrifice a victim through the use of fire immolate |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | VOCABULARY $2000: This 5-letter term for the lowest point, often of despair, comes from Arabic nadir |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $200: The Latin "Agnus Dei" means this baby animal "of God" lamb |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $400: To twist violently, like a neck wrench (or wring) |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $600: O. kisutch, or these, return upstream to deposit their eggs salmon |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $1000: A silent "K" begins this British slang word meaning very tired knackered |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $3,000 (Daily Double): The song entitled "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", for example a hymn |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $400: Around December it's what I do to certain halls deck |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $800: They come in law & three-piece varieties suits |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $1200: In 1902 Teddy Roosevelt's was "square" deal |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $1600: It's how Robert Zemeckis says, "Stop what you're doing" cut |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | CARD PLAYER'S VOCABULARY $2000: The Irrawaddy is the main one of Myanmar river |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $200: Don't stand up for yourself & you become one of these lying at the front of a dwelling a doormat |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $400: "That dwelling is illuminated but unoccupied" is another way to say this, meaning someone is thick or inattentive the lights are on, but no one is home |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $600: If you're doing this with a painful subject, you're hiding it under the shag sweeping it under the rug |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $800: A home-based business is called this homey kind of industry cottage |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $1000: Excuse my this type of "reach" to get the salt instead of asking you to pass it boardinghouse |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $400: It's a list of all source material used in preparation of a text a bibliography |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $800: "He was alone in this noisy hive with no place to roost" is a mixed one of these figures of speech a metaphor |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $1200: It's the French term for an expression that can have multiple meanings, though the name implies just 2 a double entendre |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $1600: "Animal Farm" uses anthropomorphism while "the walls have ears" is an example of this similar literary device personification |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WRITERS' VOCABULARY $2000: This word can refer to a punctuation mark or a type of imagery, like "O Death, where is thy sting" an apostrophe |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $400: Vocation means a job; this word, 1 letter longer, means a hobby avocation |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $800: The Latin arca, "chest", gives us this word meaning secret or mysterious arcane |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $1200: Last name of actor Taylor, or the vulgar quality of projects he avoids Kitsch |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $1600: It can mean a break from production for a TV show or a space within a body part hiatus |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $2000: Business prof Clayton Christensen put it before "technology" as a buzzword for an innovation that shakes things up disruptive |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | "FR" $1000: It entered our vocabulary in 1953 when the Oil & Gas Journal called it "a new exploratory tool" fracking |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: This Bronte title word is "descriptive of... atmospheric tumult" wuthering |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: Turns out hug-me-tight is a women's wool jacket; this author mentions one in "Little Women" Louisa May Alcott |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: In "An American Tragedy", this hyphenated adjective refers to lovers of unequal rank, not to a southpaw left-handed |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: In "Dracula", Jonathan Harker is driven in a caleche, one of these pulled by 4 black horses a carriage (or coach) |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: In "Emma" Jane Austen uses this word for a mixture of metals to mean reduce in quality or purity an alloy |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | 1812: THE WAR & MORE $5,000 (Daily Double): This 11-letter political word entered our vocabulary after Massachusetts' governor signed a redistricting bill gerrymander |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $200: Word for the result you get when you divide one number by another quotient |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $400: "Quixotic", meaning capricious or impulsive, goes back to a literary character created by this author Cervantes |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $800: From the Greek for "inscription", it's a short poem with a witty turn of thought an epigram |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Don’t confuse these 2 words--one’s a substance that counteracts a poison & the other, a short amusing story antidote & anecdote |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $1000: It's the correct name for a person who eats fish, but no other meat a pescatarian |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | "ARCH" MADNESS $400: The nock & the upshot are part of its vocabulary archery |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "Wuthering Heights", Hareton is likened to an "unfledged dunnock"; unfledged is not covered with these feathers |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: The narrator of "My Antonia" gets quinsy, an inflammation of these in the throat tonsils |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1200: In "Daisy Miller", the phrase "a glass in one eye" refers to this type of eyeglass a monocle |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1600: Princess Betsy in "Anna Karenina" serves tea from one of these Russian-named silver urns a samovar |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $2000: Swift says Gulliver made "a voyage or two into the Levant", which is on the shores of this sea the Mediterranean Sea |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $400: Also starting with "T", it can mean a private teacher or be a verb meaning to act as one a tutor |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $800: In the U.S. military D.I. is short for "drill" this; now give me 50, you worthless lumps! instructor |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $1200: Mussolini was a demagogue; an educator is this, with the same final 6 letters pedagogue |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $1600: Those spectacles & the tweed jacket make you look this adjective, meaning pertaining to a university teacher professorial |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | TEACHER VOCABULARY $2000: The same Latin word gives us a synonym for a building & this word for teaching that provides moral uplift edify |
| #7103, aired 2015-07-01 | NON-TALKATIVE SHOW BIZ FOLK $1600: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant, this Muppet had pretty much a 1-word vocabulary--a repeated "meep" Beaker |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | POLITICAL VOCABULARY $200: At a convention, it's a person chosen to represent a state in the nomination process a delegate |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | POLITICAL VOCABULARY $400: The Nov. 8, 1972 L.A. Times headline was this type of huge "Victory for Nixon" landslide |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | POLITICAL VOCABULARY $600: Alliterative term for a procedure counting up spoken yeas & nays voice vote |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | POLITICAL VOCABULARY $800: Phrase meaning shifting the burden of responsibility; Harry Truman said it stopped with him passing the buck |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | POLITICAL VOCABULARY $1000: It's a fundraiser who gathers lots of smaller donations into a big package of money for a candidate a bundler |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $400: Meaning at ease in different countries & cultures, it's from the Greek for "world citizen" cosmopolitan |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $800: Often found before "enthusiasm", it literally refers to a horse without control reins & bit unbridled |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $1200: Six-letter term for colorful weathering found on ancient metal patina |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $1600: Want to know how how someone goes about his business? Study his M.O., short for this Latin phrase modus operandi |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | VOCABULARY $2000: From words meaning "shape" & "science", it's the study of word structure morphology |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | WHAT THE "L" $400: It's the 8-letter term for the specialized vocabulary used by attorneys legalese |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | VOCABULARY $400: Unwritten examination type oral |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | VOCABULARY $800: A marshy outlet of a river; it was "Blue" in song a bayou |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | VOCABULARY $1200: Alopecia is a loss of this hair |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | VOCABULARY $1600: With 1 R, not 2, it's not a letter writer, it's a lover in a divorce case corespondent |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | VOCABULARY $2000: From the French for "to squint", it's the old-time visual aid seen here a lorgnette |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $400: To maintain firm control is to keep a tight this a rein |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $800: An outgrowth on the heel is a "bone" type of this a spur |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $1200: This flat, casual shoe is usually white with a contrasting leather band across the instep a saddle shoe |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $1600: It can be a type of recessed window or another name for a laurel tree prized for its aromatic leaves bay |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $2000: It's one of a number of small metal cleats embedded in a snow tire to increase traction studs |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $400: It can mean "to cover over", as the Moon sometimes totally does to the Sun eclipse |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows crossed lines on the monitor.) This word, meaning "upright" or "vertical", also describes the relationship of the two lines seen here perpendicular |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $1200: A doorway on a ship, or to break out of an egg hatch |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $2000: This 5-letter word for a brute was coined for "Gulliver's Travels"; now it's the name of a website Yahoo |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $11,000 (Daily Double): This instrument measures atmospheric pressure: its name is used to mean anything that indicates change a barometer |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | VOCABULARY $400: A girl having a quinceanera is celebrating this birthday 15 |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | VOCABULARY $800: This table game of soccer players on rods was patented in 1966 foosball |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | VOCABULARY $1600: The French for another European country gives us this name of a soft napped leather suede |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | VOCABULARY $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this great grandson of Noah can mean an idiot or a great hunter Nimrod |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | VOCABULARY $2000: Appropriately, the name for this system of writing is partly from the Latin for "wedge" cuneiform |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | IN THE DICTIONARY $200: From the Greek for "words", it's a dictionary, or the vocabulary of a particular field a lexicon |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $400: A protective spine of a porcupine, or a stiff tail feather of a bird used as a pen a quill |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $800: "Lupine" means similar to this animal a wolf |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $1200: Jump into this one-piece outfit like those worn by Michelle Pfeiffer & Una Thurman on film a catsuit |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $1600: Cows described by this adjective have had their horns removed, not their opinions recorded they have been polled |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $2000: A snood is the fleshy appendage hanging above the beak of one of these birds a turkey |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | DOUBLE "Z" $2000: This exclamation of joy or triumph is a big part of renaissance faire vocabulary huzzah |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: 10-letter word for an indoor swimming pool--nice vocabulary there, Caesar natatorium |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $400: The term "smog" is a blending of these 2 words smoke & fog |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $800: Often a misdemeanor, it means to linger in a place for no real reason loitering |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $1200: Mum's a word for this flower with a longer name the chrysanthemum |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $1600: Depending on how you pronounce it, it can be a substance burned for its fragrance, or it can mean to anger someone incense |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $2000: Having all 5 vowels in alphabetical order, it means cleverly amusing, but it can also be snarky in tone facetious |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL $2,400 (Daily Double): Biologist Edward O. Wilson told a rapt WSF audience about the chemical "vocabulary" of these colony insects ants |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ODD WORDS $400: Improve your dog's vocabulary--teach him to obtest for a treat, meaning this beg |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: In "Bleak House" this author used the word "swipes" for weak beer Dickens |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "The Age of Innocence", society women must be "properly coiffees"--meaning this must look just right hair |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: This author wasn't charitable to readers when he used "eleemosynary" in the first line of "Tom Jones" (Henry) Fielding |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: Emily Bronte uses "flaysome", meaning dreadful, several times in this novel Wuthering Heights |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: This adjective meaning "frenzied" is in the title of an 1874 Thomas Hardy novel madding (in Far from the Madding Crowd) |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | A "WHEY" WITH PUNS $2000: Someone glib is said to have this, a cheese byproduct paired with vocabulary a whey with words |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | A WELL-STOCKED LIBRARY $1600: Funk & Lewis' "30 Days To A More Powerful" one of these Vocabulary |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $400: This 8-letter word means the right to vote, not to endure pain; the 19th Amendment gave it to American women suffrage |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $800: It can mean timber sawed into boards, or to walk heavily lumber |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $1200: Monologue comes from the Greek for "speaking alone"; this synonym comes from the Latin for "speaking alone" soliloquy |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $1600: The OED dates a version of this blended word for one who is both a pal & a foe back to the 1950s a frenemy |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $4,000 (Daily Double): Carl Jung coined this word for a coincidence in time from the Greek for "with time" synchronicity |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1200: We could call this vocabulary category (one of our favorites) TETRAGRAMS FOUR-LETTER WORDS |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | SPANISH PHRASE BOOK $1000: Shopping vocabulary es muy importante: "¿Cuanto cuesta esta cadena de oro?" How much does this cost? a gold chain |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | VOCABULARY $400: A scarf for your neck, or a sound-deadener for your car a muffler |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | VOCABULARY $800: This 6-letter test checks the acidity or alkalinity of a solution litmus |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | VOCABULARY $1200: Meaning destiny, this word is from Sanskrit for "deed"; let's see if yours is good, man karma |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | VOCABULARY $1600: It means occurring every 6 years hexennial |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | VOCABULARY $5,000 (Daily Double): To withdraw from a case as a judge to avoid any semblance of bias recuse |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $200: It covers a baby bird, or it's in your quilt down |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $400: A gap through a mountain range, e.g. Donner pass |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $600: The distance along a city street from where one road crosses it to the next road a block |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $800: 6-letter word for fishing equipment tackle |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $1000: Electrical activity impeding communication interference |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | VOCABULARY $200: Trace back the Greek roots & you'll find that heliolatry is the worship of this the Sun |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | VOCABULARY $400: Latin gets its name from "Latium", a region of this country Italy |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | VOCABULARY $600: Nimbus can refer to a cloud or to one of these seen around someone's head in art a halo |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | VOCABULARY $800: To musicians in a jam session, this edible item means to improvise in an idle, careless way & may precede "around" noodle |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | VOCABULARY $1000: This word meaning "violently frenzied" is likely derived from ursine pelts worn by Old Norse warriors berserk |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $400: The "S" in the bacterium S. typhosa, it enters the digestive tract in contaminated food salmonella |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $800: A large drinking cup with a handle & hinged cover a tankard |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1200: Watery word for Steve Zissou's "Life" in a movie title Aquatic |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1600: Apple seeds contain a compound of this poison cyanide |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $2000: Salvation from sin, or the return of an investor's principal redemption |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "Y" ASK $400: It's a Germanic language with a mixture of Hebrew vocabulary Yiddish |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | TENNIS VOCABULARY, ANYONE? $200: An aviator with 5 air kills an ace |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | TENNIS VOCABULARY, ANYONE? $400: A crack in the earth's crust a fault |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | TENNIS VOCABULARY, ANYONE? $600: The retinue of a reigning monarch the court |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | TENNIS VOCABULARY, ANYONE? $800: An automobile race run over public roads a rally |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | TENNIS VOCABULARY, ANYONE? $1000: Ambrose Bierce described this as "a temporary insanity curable by marriage" love |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PLAYING BASEBALL FOR VOCABULARY $200: This device lets a trombonist change pitch a slide |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PLAYING BASEBALL FOR VOCABULARY $400: A mixture of flour & water to make pancakes batter |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PLAYING BASEBALL FOR VOCABULARY $600: An intentional stoppage by workers a strike |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PLAYING BASEBALL FOR VOCABULARY $800: An unraveling in your nylon stocking a run |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PLAYING BASEBALL FOR VOCABULARY $1000: A single-handled jug with a spout for pouring a pitcher |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | YOU GOT 2 As & 1B $600 (Daily Double): The stock of words used by a particular people; let's see how extensive yours is vocabulary |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $400: Appropriately, the name of this type of triangle comes from the Greek for "unequal" scalene |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $800: Grotesque guy seen here gargoyle |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $1200: It's an 11-letter word for coin collecting numismatism |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $1600: It used to refer to the cargo on a ship; now before "with", it's an adjective meaning filled with, as in danger fraught |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | VOCABULARY $2000: Sesquicentennial pertains to this number of years 150 |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $400: This 4-syllable word can refer to any one of the 4 authors of the Gospels or to a type of minister evangelist |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $800: The name of this, a meeting or conference, comes from the Greek for "to drink together" a symposium |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $1200: A mere dabbler wouldn't know that this 10-letter Italian word means "a lover of the arts" a dilettante |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $1600: Similar to metonymy, it's a part standing in for the whole, like "sail" to mean a ship synecdoche |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew performs a science experiment with a purple Magic Marker.) Draw on chalk & put it in water to see the component layers of marker color; it's a demonstration of this range of lab techniques that separate & analyze, from the Greek for "color" & "writing" chromatography |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | OF "E" DEN $800: It's the E in an IED, a regrettable addition to 21st century warfare vocabulary explosive |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | WHEEL OF JEOPARDY! $800: Words won't fail you if you have a good one
_ O C A _ U L A _ _ vocabulary |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | I SAID "NO", "NO", "NO" $2000: A vocabulary or system of words used in a particular discipline a nomenclature |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1200: Following "tom" or on its own, it mean plain old silliness foolery |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1600: From the Greek for "small" & "life" comes this 7-letter word for a germ or a disease-causing bacterium microbe |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | VOCABULARY $2000: A person who eats only milk & plant products may be described by this 15-letter word a lactovegetarian |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | VOCABULARY $400: Meaning not separable, it's the longest word in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance indivisible |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | VOCABULARY $800: Italian for "unknown", it's how a person in disguise might "travel" incognito |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | VOCABULARY $1200: From the Latin for "prescribe", it can mean to give orders, or to talk aloud for transcription dictate |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | VOCABULARY $1600: This 14-letter word means to sail or fly around, especially around the Earth circumnavigate |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | VOCABULARY $2000: This Russian word is used for any of the vast, treeless plains of the Arctic regions tundra |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | VOCABULARY $400: A mark of disgrace; its name is from the Greek for "tattoo mark" stigma |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | VOCABULARY $800: "Pathetic" this is the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects fallacy |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | VOCABULARY $1600: This adjective means both "bloody" & "cheerfully optimistic" sanguine |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | VOCABULARY $2000: Both "mercenary" & this synonym come from Latin roots that refer to payment soldier (of fortune) |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | VOCABULARY $2,400 (Daily Double): In a fightin' mood? You can enter the fray or take part in this noisy disturbance, from the Italian for "to smash" a fracas |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | VOCABULARY $400: The name of this extinct critter comes from words meaning "terrible lizard" dinosaur |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | VOCABULARY $800: This term for a mechanical human comes from a Czech word for "forced labor" robot |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | VOCABULARY $2,000 (Daily Double): "He's an angel" is a metaphor: "Smart as a whip" is one of these comparisons a simile |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | VOCABULARY $2000: You can learn about all types of animals at the zoo--& that "zoo" is short for this type of park or garden zoological |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $400: Of praise, increase or mock, what you do to something you augment increase |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $1200: The time of day described as "crepuscular" is when this is happening when it's starting to get dark |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $1600: Noun for a person who's sorry & is ritually showing his sorrow under the guidance of a confessor a penitent |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $2000: This adjective for a terrifying experience comes from a toothed farm implement used on plowed ground harrowing |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $2,600 (Daily Double): The body of songs a chanteuse is prepared to sing or of plays a company is prepared to put on a repertoire |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | VOCABULARY $400: "Get thee to" the letter "N" & you'll find this former term for a convent nunnery |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | VOCABULARY $800: This adjective meaning sharp or less than 90 degrees comes from the Latin for "needle" acute |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Meaning overly sentimental, this word is derived from the name of a woman whom Jesus exorcised of evil spirits maudlin |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | VOCABULARY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads.) Also a musical term, this vibration of the tongue, like in corren, is how you roll your Spanish "R"s trill |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | VOCABULARY $1600: It's what you've lost if you've been decollated head |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $400: It can mean to drain of energy or the gases that escape from an engine exhaust |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $1200: This 13-letter word can mean sudden haste, or the falling of rain, snow or hail precipitation |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $1600: Hebrew for "beasts", this "B" word for something huge derives from the name of a beast in the Book of Job behemoth |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shoes a horse.) A blacksmith who shoes horses is referred to by this name from the Latin for "iron" a farrier |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Depending where you place the emphasis, this word can mean to comfort, or an instrument panel console |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | ALL DOLLED UP $1600: Introduced in 1960, this "talkative" doll had blonde hair, blue eyes & an astounding vocabulary of 11 phrases Chatty Cathy |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $400: Wooden beams laid down to secure the rails of a railroad ties |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $800: To endow a group with the power to do something, like wear part of a 3-piece suit vest |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $1200: Saloonkeeper Clarke & political satirist O'Rourke PJs |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $1600: For insulting me, you're going to get a "Van Allen" one of these in the chops belt |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $2000: & for insulting my friend, you're going to get a "wind" one of these in the eye sock |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: This Daniel Defoe hero is "thrown into a violent calenture"--a fever once said to affect sailors in the Tropics Robinson Crusoe |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "The Europeans" Gertrude wears a "quaint and charming leghorn" one of these, "tied with white satin bows" a hat |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: In "A Tale of Two Cities", Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection-man"--defined as a person who steals & sells these corpses |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: In "Emma", Emma speaks of being in Broadway-lane when "it began to mizzle", which means this drizzle (mist accepted) |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: "What a mommet of a maid!" (mommet meaning scarecrow) is said of this Thomas Hardy title character Tess |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | TAKE THIS CATEGORY LAST!! $400: Each correct response in the "VOCABULARY" category was a title word in this author's alphabet mystery series (Sue) Grafton |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $400: There are "rules of" this, which is information that is admissible in a court of law evidence |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $800: Add a letter to the name of a young fictional rabbit chaser to get this feeling of ill will malice |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $1200: The book "Born Losers" traces this term for a penniless debtor to the futility of whipping a deceased horse deadbeat |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $1600: It ominously follows "last" or precedes "day", & it's spelled with or without an "E" in the middle judgment |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | VOCABULARY $2000: This 8-letter synonym for "guileless" comes from the Latin nocere, "to harm" innocent |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | EUROPEAN EATS $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew toasts from behind a spread of meats at a dinner table in Gdansk, Poland.) In Polish vocabulary, you may not know "piwo", beer, but you probably know the word the word for this type of sausage kielbasa |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $200: Of tardy, very happy, or full of hot air, what the word elated means very happy |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $400: While this word can mean a series of arches, you probably know it better as a place to play pinball & video games an arcade |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $600: It's the 4-letter word for the president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress veto |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $1000: It's the Spanish term for any of the Spanish conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s the conquistadores |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $1,600 (Daily Double): The name of this branch of math comes from 2 Greek words meaning "earth measure" geometry |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | BUILDING VOCABULARY $400: Shiplap is an overlapping type of this, boards covering the outside walls siding |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | BUILDING VOCABULARY $800: In roofing this word doesn't mean trembling but rough shingles, often of cedar shake |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | BUILDING VOCABULARY $1200: This multi-story open space in a building's center must be at least 20' wide to reduce danger from fire an atrium |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | BUILDING VOCABULARY $1600: The Bible says that the stone the builders rejected has become this, found at intersecting walls the cornerstone |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | BUILDING VOCABULARY $2000: It's the term for lumber treated with a preservative, from the way the preservative is applied pressure-treated |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARRIS ISLAND $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Parris Island, SC.) A lot of Marine vocabulary comes from the Navy: doors are hatches, while windows & eyeglasses are both called these portholes |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $400: It can mean even all over, or an outfit worn by all the students at a school uniform |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $800: Differing by a letter, the 2 words meaning an electrically charged atom & a very long time eon & ion |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $1200: Derived from the Greek word for "space", it means total confusion or disorder chaos |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $1600: Term for one of the two times each year when day & night are of equal length equinox |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $2000: Meaning inversely related, in math it describes what 2/3 is to 3/2 reciprocal |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: "Meaningless chatter" in medieval French, it's now the specialized vocabulary of a profession jargon |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $200: Manus usually refers to this part of the body; in fact, some people live "from manus to mouth" hand |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $400: Hibernal means pertaining to this season winter |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $600: Related to the word "glacier", verglas is a thin coating of this on a rock ice |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $800: Manducate, like this word that begins with the same 2 letters, means to chew masticate |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $1000: Lacteous describes something that's the color of this substance milk |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $400: The name of this day of the week honors Thor, the Norse god of thunder Thursday |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $800: This word for another person's life story comes from Greek words meaning "life" & "written" biography |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $1200: Call it a tadpole or call it this 8-letter word, it's still a newly hatched frog pollywog |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $1600: Adjectives describe nouns & pronouns; these words, like very & quickly, can modify adjectives & verbs adverbs |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | VOCABULARY TEST $2000: This word means paralyzed by fear or turned to stone, like a forest that's a National Park in Arizona petrified |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $200: Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line & bait a cast |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $400: You might be enticed by this general name for any artificial bait used to attract fish a lure |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $600: By gum, it's a fishing spear with a 3-pronged point a trident |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $800: Hey, good buddy, it's ground-up bits of bait discarded into the water to attract game fish chum |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish a gaff |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | VOCABULARY $400: Bovine means resembling cattle; this word that's 1 letter shorter means resembling sheep ovine |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | VOCABULARY $800: When in England, if asked to snog, be aware it means this to kiss |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | VOCABULARY $1200: This word for circumstances that lessen a punishment comes from the Latin for "soft" mitigating |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | VOCABULARY $2,000 (Daily Double): Prefab metal sheets used to print newspapers gave us this term for standard wording, as in contracts boilerplate |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | VOCABULARY $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew holds up a fencing sword.) The weak part of the blade is the foible; the strong part has this "F" name that can also mean what you're best at a forte |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $400: The word hankie is short for this; now wipe your nose handkerchief |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $800: Rearrange the letters in adobe to come up with this word for a home abode |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $1200: Pronounced one way, it's an injury; pronounced another, it can mean turned & tightened, like certain clocks wound |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $1600: It can mean to scrape the surface of the skin, or to feed out in the pasture graze |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $2000: Spelled differenty, it can be a daisy, or a baking ingredient flower |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | VOCABULARY $200: From the Spanish estampar, "to stamp", it's a lot of hoof stamping by a lot of cows stampede |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | VOCABULARY $400: A 6th century misprint of this word meaning "the highest point" gave us acne acme |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | VOCABULARY $600: To the Greeks, chloros was a pale shade of this color; hence chlorine & chlorophyll green |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | VOCABULARY $800: Its old name was Blotmonath, the month of sacrifice; time to butcher animals for the winter November |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | VOCABULARY $1000: From the Greek for "out of the center", it's an adjective for someone who acts a bit off the norm eccentric |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $400: Please be so kind as to tell me this word for the knightly code of qualities like courtesy & valor chivalry |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $800: The name of these grotesque figures often used as waterspouts comes from the Old French for "throat" gargoyles |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Cape Cod) The softshell clam's neck is also called this, meaning "to draw liquid," which is what it's used for siphon |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $2000: This process of collecting data at remote points comes from the Greek for "distance" & "measure" telemetry |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | VOCABULARY $3,200 (Daily Double): This synonym of "stolen" is found in the title of a Poe story purloined |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | LOVE, HONOR OR OBEY $400: The Daleks of "Dr. Who" have a limited vocabulary; basically it's this or "You will be exterminated!" obey |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $400: If you're rubicund, you're ruddy, or this color red |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $800: Turban & this flower name share the same Turkish roots tulip |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $1200: Caliology is the science of these, which include aeries bird nests |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $1600: From the Greek kalamos, meaning "pen", comes this ink-squirting squid name calamari |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $2000: A clergyman who is also a landowner is a "squarson", a combination of these 2 words squire & parson |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: Swipes, a slang term for weak beer, appears in his novel "Bleak House" Charles Dickens |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: The phrase "flighted to death", meaning "scared to death", is spoken by Mr. Earnshaw in this Bronte novel Wuthering Heights |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: Chapter 1 of "The Scarlet Letter" uses this synonym for an ideal place that was coined by Sir Thomas More in the 1500s Utopia |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the novel that told us, "Even to understand the word 'doublethink involved the use of doublethink" 1984 |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: The word circumambulate, meaning "to walk around", is used by this narrator in "Moby-Dick" Ishmael |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $200: Term for a female goat or for someone who takes care of kids nanny |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $400: Originally a farmer who lived nearby, now it's any nearby resident, especially one right next door neighbor |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $600: In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this diameter |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $800: It's what we call the northern or southern half of the Earth, as divided by the equator hemisphere |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $1000: While a synonym has the same meaning as another word, this is a word that means just the opposite antonym |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $100: Perhaps because of the nursery rhyme, this word for what Little Miss Muffet sat on has come to mean "footstool" tuffet |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $200: German word appropriate after the following situation
[Alex sneezing] Gesundheit! |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $300: This word given to a policy of segregation means "separateness" in Afrikaans apartheid |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $400: This synonym for an imaginary thing came from a mythical monster with a lion's head, goat's body & dragon's tail chimera |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $500: In grammar, this is the term for the noun to which a following pronoun refers antecedent |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | "CAB" $200: It's the words of a language; we'll see how good yours is now vocabulary |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | BOWLING FOR VOCABULARY $100: A work stoppage worth 10 points Strike |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | BOWLING FOR VOCABULARY $200: It can be a rainwater channel, or a bad place for your ball Gutter |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | BOWLING FOR VOCABULARY $300: An incrimination of an innocent person; 10 are in a standard game Frame |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | BOWLING FOR VOCABULARY $400: A type of cat, or a building where a "cat" might bowl Alley |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | BOWLING FOR VOCABULARY $500: The head of a crime ring, found right in front Kingpin |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | VOCABULARY $100: It's the 5-letter word for a large fluffy feather, or a column of smoke plume |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | VOCABULARY $200: They're the cute little impressions on a golf ball dimples |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | VOCABULARY $300: A gentle way to cook an egg, it also means to pamper a person, especially a child coddle |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | VOCABULARY $400: Congratulations if you know this word derived from Greek means praise or credit (It's also a granola bar) kudos |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | VOCABULARY $500: It can mean the ability to do something, or the body of teachers at a school or college faculty |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $200: The second power of a number; or an old-fashioned, unhip person Square |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $400: An angle that is less than a right angle; or sharp & severe Acute |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $600: The sum of x numbers divided by x; or typical, common or ordinary Average |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $800: Point (0,0) on a graph; or the beginning Origin |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $1000: The instantaneous rate of change of a function; or not original, adapted from others Derivative |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $200: This word can be joined with stand, tree, plant or pine; by itself, it's very handy in London during June Umbrella |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $400: This palindrome is another word for a principle or belief Tenet |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $600: These implied or indirect literary references are often made to Biblical or classical figures Allusions |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $800: Meaning loud-voiced, this adjective derives from the name of a Greek herald mentioned in "The Iliad" Stentorian |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $1000: From an Indo-European word meaning abundance, it's a single book containing several works Omnibus |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Italian for "quick", it often precedes "change-o" in a magician's vocabulary presto |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | VOCABULARY $200: Next time you send a fax, remember "fax" comes from this longer word Facsimile |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | VOCABULARY $400: Spelled one way it's a hinged entryway; spelled another, it's a horse's stride Gate/gait |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | VOCABULARY $600: Piscatology refers to the art or science of this sport Fishing |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | VOCABULARY $800: From the Latin for "to suffer with", they're the expressions of sympathy you "send" to someone who's grieving Condolences |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | VOCABULARY $1000: People do it when they ponder something; cows do it when they chew their cud Ruminate |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | TIME TO "D"ECIDE $300: A regional variety of a language distinguished by pronounciation & vocabulary; Cockney, for example Dialect |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: Grimace is used as a noun meaning pretense or sham in his novel "Moll Flanders" Daniel Defoe |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: He mentioned the word mixen, a synonym for dunghill, in his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: Cicerone, a synonym for sightseeing guide, appears in his novel "Washington Square" Henry James |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: He used the word mumpish, which means sullen, in his book "Of Human Bondage" Somerset Maugham |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: In this "dated" novel, Syme says, "What need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well" 1984 |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $100: In "Ivanhoe", Sir Walter Scott uses the verb jeopard, a back-formation of this word we love jeopardy |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: Flaysome, a synonym for frightful, appears in this Emily Bronte novel "Wuthering Heights" |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $300: He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning "inclined to use a dagger"; it's in his novel "Sons and Lovers" D.H. Lawrence |
| #3372, aired 1999-04-13 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In "Animal Farm" Major is a prize boar whose "tushes had never been cut" (tushes being these) tusks |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $200: This word for a permanent design made on the skin is of Polynesian origin Tattoo |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $400: Musty appears to be related to this word that means damp Moist |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $800: The Latin word for juice gave us this term describing something juicy or delectable Succulent |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $1000: Though from old Norse for "to search a house", pillage or plunder would be more accurate Ransack |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $1,300 (Daily Double): This antonym of pacifistic often precedes arts & law Martial |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: In "Sense and Sensibility", this part of a letter is called the direction the address |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: In this novel, Jonathan Harker overhears the word "vrolok" & finds out it means "werewolf or vampire" "Dracula" |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: His novel "Lord Jim" uses the term cat's-paws for breezes that ruffle the surface of the sea Joseph Conrad |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: In "1984" standard English is known as this, in contrast to newspeak Oldspeak |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Cedric spoke of this kind of knife in "Ivanhoe" years after Hamlet mentioned a "bare" one a bodkin |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | VOCABULARY $100: Sinitic is an adjective referring to these people, their language or their culture Chinese |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | VOCABULARY $200: If you're piscivorous, you eat this, which can "net" you some health benefits fish |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | VOCABULARY $300: Imitable means capable of being imitated; this word, its antonym, is 2 letters longer inimitable |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | VOCABULARY $400: From Portuguese for "a place for spitting", it's a synonym for spittoon cuspidor |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | VOCABULARY $500: Of waxing, waning & decrescent, the 2 that are synonyms waning & decrescent |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $100: Raise a number to the third power, or a common form for ice & sugar Cube |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $200: The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel Mean |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $300: The operation of combining numbers, or a wing appended to a building Addition |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $400: An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, or lacking sharpness of intellect obtuse |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | MATH VOCABULARY $500: A trigonometric function that equals sine/cosine, or a conversational digression Tangent |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY $200: This smallest dog breed is named for the largest Mexican state Chihuahua |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY $400: Mahon, the main town on the island of Minorca, gave us this name for a sandwich spread Mayonnaise |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY $600: The French phrase meaning "Songs of the Valley of the Vire" became this word for a type of stage entertainment Vaudeville |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY $800: An ancient name for Sri Lanka -- no, not Ceylon -- gave us this word for lucky discoveries made by accident Serendipity |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | GEOGRAPHIC VOCABULARY $1000: Belgian community that made the coarse cloth for which a bag & a coat are named Duffel |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: Emily Bronte said this title word is a "Provincial adjective, descriptive of....atmospheric tumult" Wuthering |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Epitasis, a word found in "Tristram Shandy", is the part of a play in which this "thickens" the plot |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $200: This term for a powerful business leader comes from the Latin for "great"--magnus magnate |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $400: A quint has at least this many siblings 4 |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $800: In 1907 humorist Gelett Burgess coined this word for the praising quotes on book jackets blurb |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Synonyms for this adjective include evil, unlucky, & to the left sinister |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | VOCABULARY $1000: It's a term or expression used in place of an indelicate or taboo term euphemism |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $200: Popular in 1830s England, "gonof", a slang term for pickpocket, appears in his novel "Bleak House" Charles Dickens |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $400: The word "fairlings" means presents bought at a fair in his novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Thomas Hardy |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $600: This author used the word "eleemosynary", which means charitable, in the 1st line of "Tom Jones" Henry Fielding |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $800: He invented words such as "vlossyhair" for "Finnegan's Wake"; vlossy is the Polish word for hair James Joyce |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1000: Title character who says, "Here I am noble, I am Boyer", meaning he belongs to a privileged class in Romania Count Dracula |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $200: Bifid, as in the case of a snake's tongue, means this forked |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $400: While this bed cover can be any color, it takes its name from the French word for white blanket |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $600: It's the term for a word or phrase that reads the same way backwards & forwards a palindrome |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $800: It's the more common term for a dactylogram; yours is unique a fingerprint |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | VOCABULARY $1000: This word meaning to wind & turn or wander aimlessly comes from the name of a river in Asia Minor meander |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $200: Of small, medium or large, the one that's a psychic a medium |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $400: Easily accessible to drivers, "motel" derives its name from these 2 words motor & hotel |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $600: The word language comes from lingua, Latin for this part of the body the tongue |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $800: It's the type of day that might be described as nubilous a cloudy day |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $1000: It's a lady's dressing table, or a synonym for conceit a vanity |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | VOCABULARY $100: A woman who practices this is called a yogini yoga |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | VOCABULARY $200: It's a "comfortable" name for a teapot cover a cozy |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | VOCABULARY $300: From the Latin mango, "salesman", this word can stand alone but usually follows "fish" or "gossip" a monger |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | VOCABULARY $400: Something that is flocculent resembles this animal fiber wool |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | VOCABULARY $500: As a verb it means to scurry or run hastily; as a noun, it's a pail in which coal is carried a scuttle |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | VOCABULARY $100: When used to mean a road, pike is short for this turnpike |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | VOCABULARY $200: Members of this military group are called leathernecks Marines |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | VOCABULARY $300: This word can mean a type of small deer or the eggs of a fish roe |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | VOCABULARY $400: This 3-letter word can refer to smoked salmon or liquid oxygen lox |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | VOCABULARY $500: The name of this common device for regulating the flow of a liquid comes from Latin for "false" a faucet |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | GUINNESS RECORDS $500: This language has the largest vocabulary: about 616,500 words plus some 400,000 technical terms English |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | ENDS IN "GO" $300: It's the specialized vocabulary of a particular discipline or field lingo |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | VOCABULARY $100: If you're a fan of someone or something, be advised that fan is short for this fanatic |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | VOCABULARY $200: Term for a dog's snout, or a device that fits over it to prevent biting a muzzle |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | VOCABULARY $300: A synonym for vagabond, it starts with the same 3 letters vagrant |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | VOCABULARY $400: It's the 9-letter term for an officeholder who's a candidate for reelection incumbent |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | VOCABULARY $1,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "earth", it's another word for patio terrace |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $200: It's the anatomical name for the flap beneath the laces of a shoe the tongue |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $400: The opposite of explosion, it's a bursting inward an implosion |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $600: Together or alone, these 2 words refer to a car that carries passengers for a fare a taxi cab |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $800: From the Latin meaning "fit for use", it's any of various implements used for cooking or eating a utensil |
| #2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $1000: From the name of a mythical king, it means to tease with the promise of something desirable but out of reach tantalize |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | SAINTS $800: This man who added utopia to our vocabulary was made a saint in 1935 St. Thomas More |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | VOCABULARY $100: From the Latin for "farther", it describes motives that go beyond what is said ulterior |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | VOCABULARY $200: Something saponaceous resembles this, an anagram of its first 4 letters soap |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | VOCABULARY $300: Labanotation is a system to write down these so you know when & where to plie a dance step (choreographic) |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | VOCABULARY $400: It can be a sheer silk, or a type of lemon pie chiffon |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | VOCABULARY $500: This man's name also means to annoy by constant attacks Harry |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $100: Sleek is a variant of this word which also means smooth & glossy slick |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $200: On its own it's a mode of water transportation; at the end of a word, it indicates a rank or condition ship |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $300: This other name for a hazelnut is from a saint whose feast day falls during the nutting season Filbert |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $500: Cyborg, describing something that's part human & part robot, is a combination of these 2 words cybernetic & organism |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $1,500 (Daily Double): This Latin word is used in college for an outline describing the contents of a curriculum syllabus |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | PET BIRDS $100: Guinness says an African gray one is the world's most talkative bird, with an 800-word vocabulary a parrot |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $100: This word for one's wages comes from the Latin word for salt salary |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $200: Shakespeare could tell you it's a 4-letter synonym for "poet" bard |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $300: A speaker that produces high-frequency sound is a tweeter & one that produces low frequencies is called this a woofer |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $400: Chare, as in charwoman, is an old variation of this word for a task a chore |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $500: This lattice summerhouse found in backyards may be named because surroundings can be seen from it a gazebo |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | VOCABULARY $100: Something described as periodontal surrounds one of these the teeth |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | VOCABULARY $200: These in the '40s, '50s & '60s included the Hucklebuck, the Hully Gully & the Madison dances |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | VOCABULARY $300: It can be a slender twig or a device to turn a train from one track to another a switch |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | VOCABULARY $400: A tutee is a person under one of these a tutor |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | VOCABULARY $500: A soda jerk makes ice cream treats & this type of jerk is an automatic kick response a knee jerk |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | VOCABULARY $100: It's the part of a movie ticket you keep as a receipt, or it can mean to strike your toe stub |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | VOCABULARY $200: It can mean of the mouth, or something spoken oral |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | VOCABULARY $300: It's what the R stands for in LASER & MASER radiation |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | VOCABULARY $400: Equine means horselike, feline is catlike & this is wolflike lupine |
| #2187, aired 1994-02-22 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "self-acting", it's another term for a robot automaton |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | VOCABULARY $100: It's what you call the punched holes on a sheet of postage stamps Perforations |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | VOCABULARY $200: It can describe a row of bushes that form a border, or it can mean to stall, as if hiding behind one Hedge |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | VOCABULARY $400: Term for the partial story between 2 main stories of a building, or, a low balcony in some theatres Mezzanine |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | VOCABULARY $500: One who seeks contributions, or another term for a lawyer Solicitor |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | VOCABULARY $1,200 (Daily Double): This synonym for dunce originally referred to the piece of wood on which hats & wigs were made Blockhead |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $100: Add 2 letters to flammable & you'll have this word that means exactly the same thing inflammable |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $200: It's a synonym for sleep, or a type of party where you'd sleep over slumber |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $300: Before going to the prom, you should know that "prom" is short for this promenade |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $400: A man who heads an abbey is an abbot; a woman who heads one is given this similar title an abbess |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $500: These 2 words which differ by 1 letter refer to places where birds & bees are kept aviary & apiary |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | VOCABULARY $100: It's also known as a ladybird, & it just might "fly away home" ladybug |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | VOCABULARY $200: The verb helenizing refers to adopting the speech & customs of this country Greece |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | VOCABULARY $300: A dignified, mature married woman, or the female superintendent of a prison matron |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | VOCABULARY $400: By definition, a Cornish person doesn't tel corny jokes, but comes from this English county Cornwall |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | VOCABULARY $500: It's a 6-letter synonym for "ghosts" as well as a slang term for sunglasses shades |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $400: This wonder lives on in our vocabulary as the term for a large, stately tomb the mausoleum |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | VOCABULARY $200: "To flourish" originally pertained to the blooming of this flowers |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | VOCABULARY $400: An ampere is a unit of electric current; an ampersand is a symbol for this and |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | VOCABULARY $600: This synonym for bubbly has the same root as the word fervent effervescent |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | VOCABULARY $800: An aubade is a musical piece performed in the morning & this is one played under a window at night serenade |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | VOCABULARY $1000: It once referred to a street cleaner, now it means any animal that feeds on decaying matter scavenger |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $100: The name of this continent may come from the word Ereb, meaning “land of the setting sun” Europe |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $200: This 3-letter term for a clumsy person may be derived from an old form of “elf” oaf |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $300: As a verb it means to coat with metal; as a noun it can refer to a piece of dinnerware plate |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $400: From the Greek for “universe” or “order”, it’s any of various beauty preparations cosmetics |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $500: When it refers to machines like the cotton gin, “gin” is short for this word engine |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | VOCABULARY $100: It sucks blood or precedes "tock" tick |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | VOCABULARY $200: "Pesky" is probably an alteration of this word for a nuisance pest |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | VOCABULARY $300: Smaze is an atmospheric mixture of smoke & this, hence its name haze |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Umbra, Latin for "shadow", gave us this term for offense or resentment umbrage |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | VOCABULARY $500: The plural of this body part is pharynges pharynx |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | VOCABULARY $100: From the Latin caput, for "head", it's literally the "head city" the capital |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | VOCABULARY $200: 6-letter word for a spider's snare which comes from the Old English for "spider" cobweb |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | VOCABULARY $300: The Greek word for "new" gave us the name of this rare, inert gas neon |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | VOCABULARY $400: The Latin root galli, for "Gauls", gave us this name for waterproof overshoes galoshes |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | VOCABULARY $500: This small, one-story cottage gets its name from "Bengal", where it probably originated bungalow |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | VOCABULARY $100: It's the part of a train whose name means "capable of moving from place to place" a locomotive |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | VOCABULARY $200: The name of these grinding teeth comes from the Latin word for "millstone" molars |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | VOCABULARY $300: In dice & card games, the word cinque refers to this number five |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | VOCABULARY $400: This adjective used to describe an attractive man originally meant "easy to handle" handsome |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | VOCABULARY $500: Sagittary can refer to a centaur, or to one who participates in this sport archery |
| #1971, aired 1993-03-15 | GROUPS $500: This French word has come into our vocabulary to mean a small, exclusive circle of friends a clique |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | VOCABULARY $100: A whirligig is a carousel & a whirlybird is one of these a helicopter |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | VOCABULARY $200: Something flabellate is shaped like one of these, as Sally Rand could tell you a fan |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | VOCABULARY $300: A turbine is an engine, & a turbot is one of these a fish |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | VOCABULARY $400: Something osmatic definitely has this sense smell |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | VOCABULARY $500 (Daily Double): The French know this supernatural creature as a loup-garou a werewolf |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $200: An archaic phrase, "alack the day", gave rise to this word meaning "lacking spirit" lackadaisical |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $400: This Australian mammal gets its name from the Greek for "flat-footed" the platypus |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $600 (Daily Double): This adjective for a melancholy disposition comes from the planet which is said to cause that temperament Saturnine |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $600: This consomme was named for the city of Madrid Madrilène |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $800: The name of this muse of dancing comes from 2 Greek words for "delight" & "dance" Terpsichore |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | VOCABULARY $100: The plant & animal life of a certain region are given the corresponding terms flora & this fauna |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | VOCABULARY $200: An open-handed blow, or a turned-up fold on a trouser leg cuff |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | VOCABULARY $300: It's the name of the device that helps a musician keep the beat, like clockwork a metronome |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | VOCABULARY $400: It can describe a fast & furious courtship or a spiraling current of air a whirlwind |
| #1833, aired 1992-07-15 | VOCABULARY $500: In business it's defined as the practice of giving better jobs & higher pay to relatives nepotism |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | VOCABULARY $100: As an adjective, it's slang for tipsy; in the name of a game, it precedes "winks" tiddly |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | VOCABULARY $200: An inhabitant of the Palmetto State, the Tar Heel State or the Caroline Islands Carolinian |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | VOCABULARY $300: A flexible tube found in your garden, or flexible coverings found on your legs hose |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | VOCABULARY $400: A natural or acquired ability or a unit of weight & money, used in ancient Greece talent |
| #1754, aired 1992-03-26 | VOCABULARY $500: From the Latin meaning "suffering", it often refers to Christ's suffering passion |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | VOCABULARY $100: Remove 1 letter from "chairwoman" to get this word for a cleaning lady charwoman |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | VOCABULARY $200: This "fruity" word can precede bomb or picker cherry |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | VOCABULARY $300: To find and bring back game, like a Labrador to retrieve |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | VOCABULARY $400: Necropsy is a synonym for this procedure an autopsy |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | VOCABULARY $500: The mistress of a chateau, or an ornamental chain she might wear a châtelaine |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $100: Derived from Gaelic for "enough", it means abundant & was Pussy's last name in "Goldfinger" galore |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $200: This type of booze was probably named because it was distilled or smuggled under lunar light moonshine |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $300: This dog's name may derive from a Chinese word for dog; it's dark tongue is its "mein" attraction a chow |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $400: A violent storm who name evolved from the Latin word for time a tempest |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | VOCABULARY $500: The name of this carnivore is derived from the Greek word for hog, which may make you "laugh" a hyena |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | VOCABULARY $200: It's the pounding & grinding tool that you expect to see in a mortar a pestle |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | VOCABULARY $400: A color, or a verb meaning to put ashore on a desolate island maroon |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | VOCABULARY $600: Despite its name, it's not a little wolf but a fur-bearing relative of the badger the wolverine |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | VOCABULARY $800: It's a person involved in extortion, not someone who sells tennis equipment a racketeer |
| #1687, aired 1991-12-24 | VOCABULARY $1000: By definition, a person who is "piscivorous" eats this fish |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | VOCABULARY $100: Someone who is old-fashioned or unprogressive is described as one of these "-in-the-mud" a stick-in-the-mud |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | VOCABULARY $200: "Canine" term for a simple form of swimming used to stay afloat doggie paddle (or dog paddle) |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | VOCABULARY $300: Stingy, miserly people, or inexpensive footwear for Tai & Randy cheapskates |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | VOCABULARY $400: As a verb, it means to chop into very small pieces; as a prefix, it often precedes "meat" mince |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | VOCABULARY $500: Diurnal is the antonym of this word nocturnal |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $100: Some believe this movement of thumbs is a combination of twirl & fiddle twiddle |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $200: A woman who is enciente is with this pregnant (with child) |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $300: The number on a die face whose pips are arranged in a quincunx 5 |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $400: A grilse is a young one of these on its first return from salt to fresh waters a salmon |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $500: As a noun it's a metal pail for carrying coal; as a verb, it's to sink a ship scuttle |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | VOCABULARY $100: Position in football named because it was one fourth as far from center as full back a quarterback |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | VOCABULARY $200: This Indian title associated with Gandhi means "great soul" Mahatma |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | VOCABULARY $300: Animal used as a symbol of a sports team; it comes from the Latin for "witch" mascot |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | VOCABULARY $400: This word for a congressman's pleasure trip comes from a dairy dessert junkets |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | VOCABULARY $500: A fraud, it's from the name of the Italian village of Cerreto,
famous for its quacks charlatan |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | VOCABULARY $200: A fillip is another name for this noise you can make with your thumb & finger a snap |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | VOCABULARY $400: When a flower effloresces it does this bloom |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | VOCABULARY $600: 6-letter synonym of
12 o'clock noon midday |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | VOCABULARY $800: A leatherback is a type of turtle & a canvasback is a variety of this bird a duck |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | VOCABULARY $1000: It's a list of all words in a text such as the Bible with reference to each passage in which they occur concordance |
| #1495, aired 1991-02-15 | LANGUAGES $400: Vietnamese borrowed nearly half of its vocabulary from this language Chinese |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | VOCABULARY $100: A vacant piece of land, a motion picture studio or a great number lot |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | VOCABULARY $200: A flat part of a whale's tail, a flat worm or a flat-out stroke of good luck a fluke |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | VOCABULARY $300: An amulet, an incantation or a group of finches a charm |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | VOCABULARY $500: A muscle strain or special influence exerted on behalf of a person a pull |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | VOCABULARY $1,300 (Daily Double): Lawful to hunt, of light color or within bounds fair |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | VOCABULARY $100: A division in a road, or an eating utensil a fork |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | VOCABULARY $200: This synonym for shy is rooted in the word "abash", meaning "to embarrass" bashful |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | VOCABULARY $300: It's slang for the lever that controls an airplane's movement, or a video game's action a joystick |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | VOCABULARY $400: To move from one place to another, whether it's a flower, a family or a vital organ transplant |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | VOCABULARY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Greeks called this measurement a thumb breadth an inch |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | VOCABULARY $200: Slang for someone doomed to failure, or an expired mallard Dead duck |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | VOCABULARY $400: A type of crane,
or
a type of cough Whooping |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | VOCABULARY $600: A speleologist specializes in the scientific study or systematic exploration of these Caves |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | VOCABULARY $800: By definition, an ungulate is an animal which has these Hoofs |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | VOCABULARY $1000: This adjective that describes an eagle-like nose comes from the Latin word for eagle Aquiline |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | VOCABULARY $100: A person who uses offensive epithets against a political opponent is said to be doing this with mud slinging |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | VOCABULARY $200: Meaning savage & cruel, it comes from the Latin "trux", which means fierce Truculent |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | VOCABULARY $300: This 3-letter prefix that precedes "goblin" can also mean goblin when it stands alone Hob |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | VOCABULARY $400: It can be a spokesman, part of your phone or a protective rubber device worn by a boxer Mouthpiece |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | VOCABULARY $500: This adjective meaning "of the earliest ages" appears in the first line of Longfellow's "Evangeline" Primeval ("This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines & the hemlocks") |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | VOCABULARY $100: From "casa", it once meant "little house", but now refers mostly to a gambling house Casino |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | VOCABULARY $200: Once used as a formal title, it means "my lady" in Italian Madonna |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | VOCABULARY $300: To surrender, to give up all resistance, from the Latin word for "small head" Capitulate |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | VOCABULARY $400: Annuity plan in which the last survivor inherits all, named for Lorenzo Tonti, a Neopolitan banker Tontine |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | VOCABULARY $500: A word used for any lighthouse, from the island where a famous ancient one was located Pharos |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $100: A short British slang word for your mother, whether or not she's silent mum |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $200: Sylvanite is an ore named for this region of Romania; we don't know if it works against vampires Transylvania |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $300: It's a 3-dimensional scene or exhibit, not a Christian Dior fashion show a diorama |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Fiddleheads aren't stupid violinists; they're the young fronds of these, & some people eat them ferns |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Sometimes it's a pickled flower bud used as a garnish, & sometimes it's a prank or theft a caper |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | VOCABULARY $200: An entire caste of Persian sorcerers, not just 3 wise men, gave us this synonym for hocus-pocus magic |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | VOCABULARY $400: Disease once thought to be caused by bad air, its name is Italian for "bad air" malaria |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | VOCABULARY $800: When this French word was Anglicized, its location changed from hearthside to entry hall the foyer |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | VOCABULARY $1000: The name of this Greek goddess of vengeance has come to mean an unbeatable rival Nemesis |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | VOCABULARY $3,000 (Daily Double): Calcium oxide, once used in stage lights, gave us this word for the center of attention the limelight |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $100: This flower's name didn't come from just any old garden, but from a botanist, Dr. Alexander Garden the Gardenia |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $200: From the Greek, these 2nd year students are the "wise fools" of the academic world sophomores |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $300: Something producing rainbowlike colors is said to be this, after Iris, goddess of the rainbow iridescent |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $400: An ideal community, from the title of a Thomas More work Utopia |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | VOCABULARY $500: From the Urdu word for "dusty", cloth of this color was popularized during the Sepoy Mutiny in India khaki |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $200: Chemical compound named for the man who introduced tobacco into France, Jean Nicot nicotine |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $400: Yiddish verb & noun for snack; it derived from Old High German "nascon", to gnaw a nosh |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $600: Northern opportunists in the post-Civil-War South, named for their luggage carpetbaggers |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this elected office is from the Latin word for old man senator |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $1000: Term for the buying of church positions, from Simon Magus who tried to do so in the Bible simony |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | VOCABULARY $100: Geologically speaking, "vulcanian" doesn't refer to Mr. Spock but to one of these volcano |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | VOCABULARY $200: To dish out swill to your hogs, or the swill itself slop |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | VOCABULARY $300: This arachnid was named for Taranto, Italy a tarantula |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | VOCABULARY $400: A waxwork is a wax statue, but a waxwing is one of these a bird |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | VOCABULARY $500: This adjective meaning "out of place" can refer to a pregnancy outside the womb ectopic |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | VOCABULARY $200: The Damson plum is so named since it was the plum of this Syrian capital Damascus |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | VOCABULARY $400: A tarpan is a horse, & a tarpon is this a fish |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | VOCABULARY $600: A halyard is a rope used to raise or lower one of these a flag |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | VOCABULARY $800: Snakelike, or a greenish mineral used as a decorative stone serpentine |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | VOCABULARY $1000: From the Latin word for small hand, it's another word for handcuffs manacles |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | LANGUAGES $200: With an estimated 450,000-600,000 words, this language has the largest vocabulary English |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | VOCABULARY $100: In Roman times it was a ceremony that ranked below a triumph; today actors may get a standing one ovation |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | VOCABULARY $200: A horn of plenty, its name is from Latin for "horn of plenty" cornucopia |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | VOCABULARY $300: A pedagogue does this for a living, a job common to many of our contestants a teacher |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | VOCABULARY $400: A monkey that looks like it's wearing a hood, or a monk who does wear one a capuchin |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | VOCABULARY $500: Named after a lord, it's a loose coat with slanted shoulder seams extending to the neckline a raglan |
| #1086, aired 1989-05-01 | LANGUAGES $100: Differences in vocabulary & usage have evolved in the east & west of this country divided in 1945 Germany |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | VOCABULARY $100: The latex of a plant, or the juice of a coconut the milk |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | VOCABULARY $300: Add 1 letter to "funeral" to get this adjective that refers to funerals funereal |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | VOCABULARY $400: If you know Latin, you'll know pomology is the study of growing this fruits |
| #1076, aired 1989-04-17 | VOCABULARY $500: From the French for "flat", it's a trite, banal remark a platitude |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | VOCABULARY $100: Mythical beast whose name is derived from the Latin for "having 1 horn" a unicorn |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | VOCABULARY $200: This "Dutch" flower's name comes from the Turkish for turban because it resembles a turban a tulip |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | VOCABULARY $300: This part of your anatomy was named for a 16th c. anatomy specialist, Bartolommeo Eustachio the Eustachian tube |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Though its name comes from the Italian for "high" it's the lowest female singing voice (contr)alto |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | VOCABULARY $500: From the Malay words for "man" & "forest", it's the name of an ape the height of a small man an orangutan |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | VOCABULARY $100: A preparation for public performance whether or not you "dress" rehearsal |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | VOCABULARY $200: As Quincy could tell you, a necropsy is more commonly called this autopsy |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | VOCABULARY $300: Louis XIV might have told you this French phrase means "nobility obligates" noblesse oblige |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | VOCABULARY $400: From the French for "purse", it's the official in charge of funds at a college bursar |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | VOCABULARY $500: Shame on you if you don't know that a shaman is one of these witch doctor |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | VOCABULARY $100: A case for arrows, whether or not it shakes quiver |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | VOCABULARY $200: It means government by a small group, not government by men named Ollie oligarchy |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | VOCABULARY $300: If your hostess offers you a comfit, she expects you to do this with it eat it |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | VOCABULARY $400: Misogyny is the hatred of women, whereas misogamy is this hatred of marriage |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | VOCABULARY $500: From Latin for "to beg", it's a fancy 9-letter synonym for a beggar mendicant |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | WORD ORIGINS $600: During medieval times, it meant "meaningless chatter"; now it means the special vocabulary of a trade jargon |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $100: Easterly's antonym westerly |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $200: In dictionary entries, this word is followed by fish, saucer & Dutchman flying |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $300: What an "upsilon" is the Greek letter "U" |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $400: Gullah, which has African roots, is a language spoken by some black inhabitants of this country the United States |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | VOCABULARY $500: A "valetudinarian" is constantly & morbidly concerned with this his health |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | VOCABULARY $100: Undergarment whose name, derived from Middle English, literally means "short coat" petticoat |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | VOCABULARY $200: Ovate, ovoid & oval all mean this egg-shaped |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | VOCABULARY $300: Something that is soporiferous induces this sleep |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | VOCABULARY $400: "Podia" is the plural of this podium |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | VOCABULARY $500: This word specifically means a person who tells, writes or makes up fables a fabulist |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | VOCABULARY $100: Zoolatry is the worship of these animals |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | VOCABULARY $200: From the Tamil word for roll, "curuttu", it's a cigar with square-cut ends a cheroot |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | VOCABULARY $300: A "toby" is 1 of these; often shaped like a hefty-man wearing a 3-cornered hat a jug (or drinking mug) |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | VOCABULARY $400: This Spanish word for a lace scarf literally means "little blanket" a mantilla |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | VOCABULARY $500: Technically, this adjective means "of, pertaining to, or located in a parish" parochial |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $100: Heliolatry is the worship of this heavenly body the sun |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $200: You shouldn't be listed in a necrology until you're this dead |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $300: Part of the body where a Scotsman wears his glengarry his head |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $400: A edentulous person lacks these, as Gabby Hayes could have told you teeth |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $500: Iridology is the study of this part of the body the iris |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | VOCABULARY $100: Of spring rolls, Eskimo rolls, or rollmops, the ones you don't eat Eskimo rolls |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | VOCABULARY $200: Of a dingus, dinghy or dingo, the animate object dingo |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | VOCABULARY $300: Of a conjugation, congregation, or conjuration, the 1 most likely to begin "amo, amas, amat..." conjugation |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | VOCABULARY $400: Of a sniffle, snaffle, or snuffle, the 1 that isn't a rhinal condition snaffle |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | VOCABULARY $500: Of goa, koa, or moa, the 1 that's extinct moa |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $100: Of a barnacle, binnacle, or carbuncle, the one you'd find most useful aboard ship binnacle |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $200: Of a witch, waterfowl, or way out, what you're looking for if you're looking for a egress way out |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $300: Of a buttock, futtock, or fetlock, the 1 not found on a horse futtock |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Of ex parte, ex libris, or ex post facto, the 1 that's not a legal term ex libris |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | VOCABULARY $500: Of polydactyl, polydipsic, or polydemic, what you'd be if you were stranded in the desert without water polydipsic |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | VOCABULARY $100: Of an aardvark, an angel, or Hulk Hogan, the 1 most likely to have a seraphic countenance angel |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | VOCABULARY $200: Of relaxed, sickly, or lazy, what you are if you're indolent lazy |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | VOCABULARY $300: Of Sophistic, soporific or sophmoric, the 1 describing a soprano whose singing puts you to sleep soporific |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | VOCABULARY $400: Of epitome, nadir or pinnacle, the 1 that's an antonym of zenith nadir |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | VOCABULARY $600 (Daily Double): Of mishap, mistake or mischance, the 1 that doesn't have a synonym in this answer mistake |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | IMPOSSIBLE QUOTES $400: Napoleon once said that the word "impossible" is not this French |
| #179, aired 1985-05-16 | GRAMMAR $400: This language has a larger vocabulary than any other English |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BEST PICTURES $800: With this Oscar winner of 1956, Michael Todd brought "cameo player" into show biz vocabulary Around The World In 80 Days |
| #125, aired 1985-03-01 | STARTS WITH "V" $200: All the words you know your vocabulary |
| #100, aired 1985-01-25 | GAME SHOWS $200: The show which added the word "zonk" to our vocabulary Let's Make a Deal |
