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1. I'm sitting on the SOFA partaking of ORANGES, TANGERINES, a cold drink with LEMON and LIME in it, and, on the side, as always, a cup of COFFEE. From which language did I borrow the bold words?
2. 'Tis the Saturday night poker game, and I've had a bit of BOOZE, BRANDY, and a COOKIE. As I TICKLE my pet MEERKAT, I contemplate BLUFFING, because I have no LUCK at this game. From whence did I borrow the bold words?
3. Uh oh, there's a LEVIATHAN blocking my way. Oh, it's only a BEHEMOTH, no problem.
I'm no CHERUB, but I prefer to choose my battles. I know I left my CAMEL parked under the SYCAMORE tree, so I can avoid this BROUHAHA. Where did the bold words come from?
4. I have a menagerie of animals in my back yard: CARIBOU, MOOSE, CHIPMUNKS, MUSKRATS, OPOSSUMS and WOODCHUCKS. Their names come from Algonquin. True or False?
5. The 'Big KAHUNA' sits on the LANAI strumming his UKULELE. His WAHINE, dressed in her MU'U MU'U, is preparing a small LUAU including MAHI MAHI, POI and pineapple. Where do these soothing words come from?
6. EISTEDDFOD is a word borrowed from German. True or False?
7. I let my BUDGERIGAR out of his cage in my MIA MIA, but he got scared when a DINGO popped in to visit. I could scare it away with my BOOMERANG, but I threw it two hours ago and it hasn't yet returned. From the indigenous languages of what country did the bold words come?
8. Our OMBUDSMAN came by today to invite us to a SMORGASBORD which will include LUTEFISK, SURSTROEMMING, GRAVLAX and AKVAVIT. "OOFDA! Where did all this come from?"
9. I'm eating a BANANA and some OKRA GUMBO, and drinking COLA. Some BOGUS BOZO, who is not HIP to my JIVE, is trying to put VOODOO on my MOJO! Watch me BOOGIE to some JAZZ and smash my FUNKY BANJO over his head! Where did I get the bolds?
10. I'm really GUNG-HO after my PEKOE TEA and RAMEN with KETCHUP! I'm a regular TYCOON in a TYPHOON with a YEN for some KUMQUATS. From which language did the bold words originate?
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