Your retina is at the back of your eyeball, and consists of the rods and cones, which detect light. The images go from the retina to the brain, via the optic nerve.
2. Lewder
Answer: Retains
Nastier.
Nasty has no nice meanings, but a lot of bad ones. It can be lewd, unpleasant, smutty, dirty, sore and many more.
3. Drink
Answer: Retains
Retsina.
Retsina is an ancient Greek drink, made of wine flavoured with pine resin. It is classified as a 'protected designation of origin', meaning that it can only be named 'retsina', if it is made in Greece.
4. Dentures
Answer: Petals
Plates.
Plates are false teeth, designed to replace missing teeth. A plate may replace a single tooth, or an entire mouthful!
5. Connector
Answer: Petals
Staple.
In 1866 George McGill was granted the first US patent for a staple machine, but the easy-to-use stapler that we use today was not created until the 1930s.
6. Colour
Answer: Petals
Pastel.
A pastel colour is paler than normal, and the medium called pastel painting uses dry materials, as opposed to water-colour or oil paintings. The famous 19th-century artists, Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas all used the technique in some of their paintings.
7. Nasty
Answer: Evil
Vile.
Appropriately, 'evil' and 'vile' are anagrams of each other, and they mean the same thing. Vile comes from the Latin root, 'vilis', meaning 'low value'.
8. Bridal item
Answer: Evil
Veil.
Veils have a long history, and are found in many civilisations and religions. In Western culture, however, they are mainly seen on brides. There are various types, some covering the entire head, some just the hair, or upper or lower parts of the face.
9. Small lake
Answer: Evil
Vlei.
A vlei (also spelled vly, vlaie, vley or fly) is a small body of water in South Africa. It originates from the Afrikaans word for valley.
10. Dwell
Answer: Evil
Live.
The word is a heteronym, meaning it has different pronunciations for the same spelling. For example - "I live in Australia and like to watch live sport."
To live (rhymes with 'give'), means to exist, to have life, and many other meanings. Live (adjective/adverb, rhymes with 'five'), also has many different definitions- live wire, live audience, live coals, etc.
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