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1. What word means being resistant to a certain disease?

From Quiz It Rhymes with "June"

Answer: immune

The immune system helps fight off certain disease-causing invaders like bacteria and viruses, therefore, the immune system helps keep a person healthy. The immune system weakens as a person gets older, meaning deadly diseases would develop more easily as there are fewer immune cells to help with healing.

From Quiz Suffix it to Say...

Answer: celerity

See how I used an 'ity' to define another 'ity'? Celerity is from the Latin (what isn't?) and means swiftness of motion or action, i.e., alacrity (ha!). It has nothing to do with vegetables but, rather, is closely associated with acceleration. Both words use the Latin root 'celer' meaning swift. Parity is from the Latin "paritas", i.e., equality (oops, I did it again). Asperity is harshness of tone or manner, abrasiveness. Pertinacity means stubbornness.

From Quiz Ten Keys

Answer: monkey

There are a number of kinds of primate. "Primate" technically refers to a biological order distinguished by the following (no member of the primate order exhibits all these traits but to qualify, an organism must exhibit some of them): -opposable thumbs -prehensile hands and feet -good vision, usually binocular -large brain with cortical folds -flattened nails instead of claws -a variety of physical structures/forms -extended periods of postnatal dependency There are two sub-categories of primate. Man and apes are in one category and, interestingly, lemurs are in the other!

From Quiz Cide Ways

Answer: Patricide

Parricide may refer either to the act of killing one's father, or to the person who does so. Pater means father in Latin. Matricide is killing one's mother. Fratricide is killing one's brother. Sororicide is killing one's sister. All are from Latin: mater=mother; frater=brother; soror=sister. Trypanocide means killing of trypanosomes, parasitic protozoa, usually in the bloodstream. Dominicide is the slaying of one's master. Vaticide is the killing of a prophet.

From Quiz Words Endings (-nym) Definitions

Answer: acronym

NATO is an example of an acronym. It stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Since it is pronounced as a word, and not by simply stating the letters used, it is an acronym. It can also be called an initialism or acrostic, but these terms also apply to 'words' that are read out as the series of letters. An example of this is WHO, which stands for the World Health Organisation, but is pronounced by naming the letters one at a time.

From Quiz Words that End With ET

Answer: internet

I cannot live without my Internet.

From Quiz What ends in -ine??

Answer: Pertaining to cattle or oxen

The word bovine is sometimes used as an adjective meaning stupid or dull witted. Not true about the cows I've met on the farm!

From Quiz Amelia and Archibald's Tate Words

Answer: regurgitate

Regurgitate, as well as meaning to vomit, also means to repeat information.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Rate These Words

Answer: deliberate

Deliberate used in this sense means to consider carefully. Deliberate can also mean intentional.

From Quiz Adjectives ending in -ous

Answer: servile, deferential

Students who grovel or try to become a teacher's pet might be described as obsequious.

From Quiz Manias

Answer: books

Some of those people can be found at the Book Corner in Fun Trivia.

From Quiz Crazy Job Descriptions

Answer: Acting

From Quiz Vocabulary: I 'Ate' My Words

Answer: Accumulate & Assimilate & Amalgamate

From Quiz Birth of a '-NATION'

Answer: Hibernation

Hibernation is a process through which a number of types of animals lower their metabolism in order to withstand harsher winter months when food, daylight, and warmth are scarce, and it's a natural occurrence brought on by evolutionary needs of creatures like bears and rodents. The reverse process, in which creatures sleep during the summer, is known as aestivation, and it's typically reserved for creatures that would otherwise find it extremely tough to survive in hot and dry climes.

From Quiz It Rhymes with "June"

Answer: tune

A tune is a sequence of musical elements, such as pitch and rhythm, that make up the melody. In another definition, a music instrument is tuned is to modify its sound. A guitar or other stringed instrument is tuned by turning the tuning pegs on the headstock that tightens or loosens the strings.

From Quiz Suffix it to Say...

Answer: the branch of science dealing with the production of crops

If you got it wrong, no need for an apology! The terms agrology and agronomy are often interchangeable except in Canada, where agrology is the broader term for a science-based regulated profession, while agronomy is defined as above, i.e., the specific science dealing with crop production. The study of grasses is agrostology; the study of cells is called cariology; the branch of pathology that studies disease on a cellular level is named cytopathology.

From Quiz Ten Keys

Answer: donkey

And the Republicans are represented by an elephant. The donkey was first used by Andrew Jackson on his campaign posters after a newspaper journalist called him a jackass during his run for President in 1828.

From Quiz Funny Cide

Answer: monarch

Again a word taken from Latin, rex is the word for a king and regis means 'of the King'. The term regicide can refer to the killing of any ruling sovereign, and also, as with many -cide words, the person guilty of the killing. The term was originally used in the UK for the execution of a monarch, which had been decreed following their trial. The execution of King Charles I of England in 1649 was an early example. There are also references to regicide in literature. A couple of the most well-known come from the works of Shakespeare - in 'Macbeth', where Macbeth kills King Duncan and later gains the throne of Scotland, and also in 'Hamlet', as Hamlet's uncle Claudius had killed his brother and married the widow in order to accede to the throne of Denmark.

From Quiz Cide Ways

Answer: Killing oneself using a vehicle

Autocide is suicide specifically by using a car or its parts, whether by wrecking it, plunging off a cliff or using the exhaust to inhale. The word automobile simply means self moving. Parasuicide refers to an attempted suicide. Vehicular homicide is killing another person using a car, bus, or truck, etc. Manslaughter is the unintentional killing of a person. Murder is the intentional killing of a person.

From Quiz Words Endings (-nym) Definitions

Answer: antonym

Antonyms might define extremes as with scientific measurements and word relations. In this case, the adjective pairs would be used to describe objects whose qualities are opposites.

From Quiz My Way

Answer: Taxiway

The connecting strips of concrete leading airplanes between the terminal building and the runways are called taxiways. Taxiing is the movement of aircraft on the ground on their own power; planes being pushed or pulled are not considered taxiing. In contrast to runways which bear a numerical designation, taxiways are identified by letter designations.

From Quiz Words that End With ET

Answer: wallet

I wish my wallet had a little more money in it.

From Quiz What ends in -ine??

Answer: Of fish and fishes

Piscina can also be an alternate name for your fishpond, very posh!

From Quiz Amelia and Archibald's Tate Words

Answer: intestate

Intestate is the opposite of testate, which means to have made a valid will before death. The word has Latin roots.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Rate These Words

Answer: inveterate

Inveterate come from the word inveterari, which means to grow old or to endure.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Words of Late

Answer: sibilate

Victorian audiences were manipulated into participating in the melodramas which were popular at that time. Archibald and Amelia sibilated (hissed) the villain and cheered the hero.

From Quiz Adjectives ending in -ous

Answer: concerned with details

A person who is very difficult to please might be described as fastidious.

From Quiz Manias

Answer: presents

It may be a good idea to befriend a DOROmaniac.- DorAmania is the abnormal interest in fur. More on manias at www.wordexplorations.com (a paysite).

From Quiz Crazy Job Descriptions

Answer: Boxing

From Quiz Vocabulary: I 'Ate' My Words

Answer: Berate

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