Tried various spellings for "divinity" and "diluvium" (which i thought was more correct than deluge, specially considering that the period before the Flood is called antediluvian). Surprised those weren't acceptable. Opposite of "international" is national, domestic, even though it may be used in that context, stems from "domus" which is the latin name for "house." Domestic is therefor more appropriate to refer to indoors habitation. I'd consider changing that hint.
Your knowledge of latin roots should then tell you that "deluge" stems from the same root as "diluvium" and antediluvian means "before the flood." Ergo, the english word that the quizmaster was searching for was clearly 'deluge.' As for Domestic...come on man...did you get it right or what? The clue is good enough for 73% of quiz takers to get right.
Wow ease up on him man. He has a point last time around I didnt get domestic and this time only in the last second. Though in certain context they are used as opposites the words are not technically opposite linguistically. National is the opposite of international.
Just because someone gets it right does not say anything about the correctness of a question. I can say what is opposite of a chicken on an R quiz, and everybody would say rooster. But chicken isn't male or female, hen is the female version.
Btw chicken is a domestic animal, so the opposite would be and international animal?
I think you’re looking at it wrong, Sif. The criticism is that this person is talking about the Latin roots of the word as if we should still base its definition on them, but isn’t aware that a “D” word that’s opposite international is clearly domestic. So to criticize the quiz and to tell the maker to change the clue based on Latin usage of domus is rather obtuse. Also, there are no “technical opposites”. There’s no official antonym society that tracks these things, so domestic and international are as good as opposites as international and national—especially since domestic and national more or less mean the same thing.
There is a word for taking of your clothes even, disrobe> Not to be confused with dismantle, you are not taking of your mantle then, but dealing with bombs ;)
"Dias" should not be accepted for "dais". I was for some reason wanting to type "diaspora" for the flood and was surprised when I suddenly got credited with "Dais". I am pretty sure I spelled it "dias" too :)
Aristotle would argue that there is no innate quality of horsiness, but merely horsey characteristics. Also, horsiness is an acceptable word to my phone?? Sweet
@nevcos, I see what you mean. In the NBA you don't even have to bounce the ball. You can just carry it down the court without getting called out by the refs.
I now dauphin from Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Not sure I've ever come across it anywhere else (but I'm pretty ignorant about French history and aristocracy).
From Wikipedia: "Property brought to the marriage by the bride is called a dowry. But the word dower has been used since Chaucer (The Clerk's Tale) in the sense of dowry, and is recognized as a definition of dower in the Oxford English Dictionary."
Just because someone gets it right does not say anything about the correctness of a question. I can say what is opposite of a chicken on an R quiz, and everybody would say rooster. But chicken isn't male or female, hen is the female version.
Btw chicken is a domestic animal, so the opposite would be and international animal?
From Wikipedia: "Property brought to the marriage by the bride is called a dowry. But the word dower has been used since Chaucer (The Clerk's Tale) in the sense of dowry, and is recognized as a definition of dower in the Oxford English Dictionary."