Synonyms and Antonyms Trivia

1. Used in the title of a play by Shakespeare, which term for a wife brings to mind an ill tempered woman who is constantly nagging?

From Quiz Meet The Missus

Answer: Shrew

The term is derived from the Middle English word, "schrewe" meaning a wicked person. In Shakespeare's 16th century play, "The Taming Of The Shrew", society was very much male dominated, and any woman who was insubordinate towards her husband, or had her own point of view, was considered a shrew, also known as a "common scold". Not only was this not encouraged by society, it was actually a criminal offense, punishable by being subjected to the ducking stool, or made to wear a form of pillory, known as a "shrew's fiddle", which entailed the offender's wrists being locked in front of them by means of a yoke around their neck. The offense of being a shrew or common scold remained on the statute books in England and Wales until 1967, although thankfully had not been acted upon for many years before that.

From Quiz Astrosynonyms

Answer: Luna

Luna would be the proper name for Earth's moon to go along with all other moons in our solar system. Luna is the Latin word for moon, and the adjective 'lunar' (coming from Luna) means to describe things that relate to our moon.

From Quiz Pro, Con, Pro, Con

Answer: Clarify

Confound is to confuse or mix up. To contradict the effect, one must clarify things so they can be understood. Profound is opposite to shallow whether emotionally or physically. Condemn is to sentence to a terrible fate. Provide is to offer provisions in the form of shelter, food, security, etc.

From Quiz Opposites Repel in Dubai

Answer: Drop us on the same side of the Dubai Mall

We asked him to drop us on the same side of the Dubai Mall. Opposite means to have a position of the other side of an object. Here, the word is used as an adjective. Same means identical or unchanged. It is also used as an adjective here. Dubai Mall is a wonderful mall in the emirate of Dubai and is one of the largest malls in the world. It has more than 1,000 shops, a cinema, an ice rink and a very large aquarium.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms II

Answer: facetious

Facetious means "joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an inappropriate". It is an adjective. It comes from the Latin word facetia.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms

Answer: arduous

Arduous means "difficult to do; laborious". It is an adjective. It is from the Latin word arduus, which means "steep".

From Quiz Hidden Happy Times

Answer: cheery

Shamefacedly, he stammered "It, uh, sort of made my heart aCHE, ER, You know what I mean." 'Cheery' is derived from the Anglo-Norman 'chere' ('the face'), from Old French 'chiere', from Late Latin 'cara' ('face'), from Greek 'kara' ('head'). Already by Middle English the meaning had extended metaphorically to mean 'mood as reflected in the face.' Originally, cheer could be used either in a positive or negative sense, but since the 14th century it has come to be used exclusively to describe a positive state.

From Quiz Synonymy II

Answer: majestic

To be sublime is to be majestic or impressive. When you experience something greatly awe-inspiring, you might consider it sublime.

From Quiz Synonymy

Answer: capricious

Arbitrary means done by impulse or without rationale. A capricious person is most likely to do something on a whim.

From Quiz Four-Letter Adjectives-Antonyms

Answer: able

From Quiz Opposites Attract

Answer: Happy

From Quiz Meet The Missus

Answer: Battle Axe

Actual battle axes, of the non female type, were cheap looking, but had formidable destructive power, and this is where the term is believed to have originated. Originally, however, it was used to describe both men and women, up until the 1950s, when it became a more female orientated description. A battle axe is a no nonsense wife who knows what she wants and will resort to bullying in order to meet her aim. Carrie Nation was a member of the pre-prohibition temperance movement and regularly attacked bars and other drinking establishments with a hatchet. She once proudly described herself as, "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like." Lady Astor was the first British MP to take her seat in the House of Commons in 1919, and is remembered for her long running feud with Winston Churchill, while Nurse Ratched is the power crazed nurse in Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962). The "Carry On" series of films, hugely popular in UK in the 1960s and 1970s, often featured battle axe characters, played by stars such as Peggy Mount, Hattie Jacques and Judith Furse.

From Quiz Astrosynonyms

Answer: Sol

Sol is a more fancy name for the Sun, similar to the names of other stars like Sirius and Rigel. The adjective for Sol is 'solar', meaning things that relate to our Sun, e.g. solar energy, solar wind.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms II

Answer: distraught

Distraught means "extremely troubled; mentally confused; distracted; harassed". It is an adjective.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms

Answer: sardonic

Sardonic means "disdainfully or bitterly sneering". It is an adjective. It is from the Latin word sardonius.

From Quiz Hidden Happy Times

Answer: content

As they paused in front of the iCON, TEN Teachers of art told their students to note its stylized details. The word 'content' appeared in English in 1418, evolving from the Middle French 'contenter', from content (adj.), c.1400, from Latin 'contentus' ('contained', 'satisfied'). The content person is satisfied because his or her desires are contained within that which he or she already has.

From Quiz Synonymy II

Answer: wanderingly

Knights errant were those who roamed to find what they were looking for. If you are errant on a journey, you are on a journey in which you wander.

From Quiz Synonymy

Answer: affable

Humans seek company and to do so amicably would be gregarious. If you were affable, you would be easy to approach.

From Quiz Four-Letter Adjectives-Antonyms

Answer: bald & bare

From Quiz Opposites Attract

Answer: Shorten

From Quiz Astrosynonyms

Answer: jovian

Jovian planet is termed after the biggest gas giant planet in our solar system - Jupiter. Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are three other jovian planets orbiting our Sun, and there are countless more around other stars.

From Quiz Nonexistent Antonyms

Answer: Overt, obvious

'Unnoticed' and 'discreet' would be appropriate antonyms for 'incognito', a word which comes to us from Latin. 'Cognito', unfortunately, isn't an acceptable opposite, though it has been used (albeit rarely) in informal conversation as a way of expressing that which is overt or not incognito. Regardless, 'cognito' doesn't exist as a word in English.

From Quiz Oxymoron Antonyms: Why Say Two Words ...

Answer: Mt Fuji (Japan)

In three of these cases English has been used to add a physical characteristic onto a native description, where the native description includes the physical characteristic. Hence Lake Nyasä literally means "Lake Lake" and Connecticut River means Long Tidal River River. "Maunga" means Mountain in Maori, "nui" means big so Mt Maunganui mean Mountain Mountain big". Mount Fuji is correctly named, but if it is referred to as Mt Fujiyama, which was common in the recent past, this is a pleonasm as "-yama" means mountain. When in Japan, the correct way of referring to it is simply "Fujiyama".

From Quiz Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me

Answer: Kissing

Since the two balls have only a very small point of contact, similar to the amount of contact when a social kiss is made between two people, they are said to be kissing. This is an informal usage, and the reason for its use may be recorded differently in some places, as is often the case when a usage arises in different places before becoming common.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms II

Answer: obstreperous

Obstreperous means "noisy, boisterous, or unruly, esp. in resisting or opposing". It comes from the Latin word obstrepere, meaning "to roar at". It is an adjective.

From Quiz Synonyms and Antonyms

Answer: mediocre

Mediocre means "neither very good nor very bad". It is an adjective. It comes from the Latin word mediocris.

From Quiz Hidden Happy Times

Answer: elated

Judy called after her teenage daughter heading out to a party, "Don't bE LATE, Darling, I'll be waiting up for you." 'Elated' comes from Latin 'elatus', the past participle of 'efferre', ('to bring out, exalt'). In Latin, the adjectival form indicated a lifting of the spirits, and that is the sense in which it has always been used in English.

From Quiz Synonymy

Answer: zeppelin

A dirigible is an airship, or zeppelin, that is kept up in the air by a gas such as hydrogen or helium (typically hydrogen).

From Quiz Four-Letter Adjectives-Antonyms

Answer: calm

From Quiz Opposites Attract

Answer: Disappoint

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