I respected your decision to not allow it, until you started your sentence with "ain't." Now it is clear you're just being a meanieface :( How can you ardently defend a word being excluded from the list to maintain consistency with modern vernacular standards, if you use "ain't" unironically? You just can't be trusted with this kind of power.
1) You're arguing with a five year old comment 2) It's hardly an "ardent" defense and 3) "Ain't gonna happen" is very much in the language, ironic or not
Just looked up the word plutocracy on Wikipedia and it says, "A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income." Maybe I was correct after all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
It seems like placebo should not really be called medicine. Its just a sugar pill mostly used in experiments. I would probably have got it if the clue was "pill with no active ingredients". Good quiz!
A placebo need not be a sugar pill though. It can be any "non" treatment - e.g. a saline injection, say, or a cream with no active ingredients, or putting somebody through the motions of receiving radiotherapy without actually switching the radiation on...
So what do you call clear liquid that is gelled? Our jam has bits of fruit in it, but jelly is the clear juice of fruits with pectin added to make it gel - although some fruits such as gooseberries, lemons, and green apples have natural pectin and will gel without added pectin. Whole or large pieces of fruits cooked in syrup until they gel are called preserves. Do you have all of those?
So that's the other definition for pantomime... I just think of Christmas plays for pantomimes, but anyone who isn't British gets confused by this, so I assumed there was another definition.
Looking up the definition of 'Pantomime' I came across this.........
"A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music............." sounds just like the old movies before talkies.
Any chance you could add "jam" into the jelly clue for clueless Brits? I know all about pectin but was trying to think of a synonym for gelatine as you don't need pectin for what I think of as jelly (the dessert you have at kids' parties).
"A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music............." sounds just like the old movies before talkies.
I just think of Pantomime's as the cheesy plays at Christmas time.
But seriously, plutarchy should be OK.