Vocabulary Words Ending in "Ster"

Did you hear about the man who fell into the upholstery machine?

Don't worry, he's fully recovered.

"Quartermaster" threw me off because I was in the Navy - it means something very different there.

I have to be honest, I have never heard of a seamster. Feeling pretty stupid right now.

Surely you've heard of a seamstress? And you can probably figure out how the male counterpart would be named (actor-actress, mister-mistress, adulterer-adulteress). I'd never heard the term before either, but that's how I figured it out.

No "Quizmaster"?

He's there, in bold at line 3.

A spinster is not necessarily old...and its a much better word than "bachelorette"

It's anecdotal, but I just polled every young woman in my office and it was unanimous...they'd all rather be called a bachelorette than a spinster! ;)

So I tried reupholster time and time and time again. Could not figure out why it wouldn't work. I guess something needs to be upholstered before it can be reupholstered. Doesn't help that I'm sitting on a couch that needs to reupholstered

Filibusters don't only happen in the US Senate. They happen in many parliaments around the world, and often in the lower house as well as the senate.

Agreed! You may wish to generalize this - filibuster happens in Canada at both federal and provincial levels, and there certainly are no senates in provincial government.

Got 5*. It's ok but don't really understand why more challenging quizzes don't get featured. No offence meant

got stuck on the car one, all I could think of was boxster.

You missed hamster