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W Vocabulary Words Quiz #2

Can you guess these vocabulary words that start with the letter W?
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First submittedDecember 21, 2012
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Definition
Word
Cowboy movie
Western
Antonym of wane
Wax
Uterus
Womb
One who isn't but wishes he was
Wannabe
Noise made by a horse
Whinny
Trachea
Windpipe
Mafia slang for kill
Whack
Non-dancer at a party
Wallflower
The sum of one's clothing
Wardrobe
An apartment reached by stairs,
not an elevator
Walkup
Definition
Word
Injury caused by violent head jerking
Whiplash
Rabbit's home
Warren
Milk remaining after cheese has curdled
Whey
Marsh or swamp
Wetland
Equipment in cricket or croquet
Wicket
Fold of skin hanging from a turkey's neck
Wattle
German loan word that means prodigy
Wunderkind
Beetle that often attacks cotton or wheat
Weevil
To sharpen a knife on a stone
Whet
Type of instrument such as an oboe,
flute, or clarinet
Woodwind
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Level 82
Mar 31, 2013
Got everything except for Wetland, though it took me a minute to figure out wattle due to the the incorrect spelling conventions we were saddled with by the British.
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Level 53
Mar 31, 2013
nope, you just say it wrong
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2019
I don't, and though you might, it's unlikely that you pronounce it like "wattle" whether you do or not.
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Level 67
Feb 2, 2018
'Saddled with'? It didn't stop you changing grey, colour, centre, etc!
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2019
yeah I know. Noah Webster did a lot of good work he just didn't go far enough.
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Level 78
Jan 23, 2024
Noah Webster popularized many of the spellings commonly used in American English such as color, traveler, and center. But some of his spellings didn't catch on. These include masheen, tung, dawter, iland, thum, wimmen, and beleev.

#JS

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Level 61
Nov 12, 2015
How about the term "wet work" for mafia slang for murder?

No? Well at least give me "wabbit hole" for a rabbit's home.

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Level 67
Sep 22, 2019
I once ran a trivia night that included a "name that tune" bonus round in which I played 15 seconds of a song and the teams had to write down the name on their sheets. Only two teams correctly identified "Ride of the Valkyries," but a third wrote "Kill the Waaaabbit. Kill the Waaaaabbit," so naturally I awarded points to all three of them.
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Level 55
Nov 12, 2015
I have two pet rabbits, and I have never heard of a warren. Burrow, den, you name it, but never warren. Then again, perhaps it's because the answer to "rabbits' home" for my two bunnies is "my house."
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Level 83
May 4, 2016
Pet rabbits don't tend to live in warrens.
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Level 75
Sep 22, 2019
I learned the meaning of warren from the book, Watership Down.The mama cottontail and swamp rabbits here in Missouri make individual nests above ground or rarely, borrow an old groundhog den. Maybe warren is a European thing?
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2016
Horses also whicker.
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Level 48
Sep 22, 2019
Thanks for a nice new word. Whicker: to neigh softly, make a breathy whinny
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Level 71
Feb 6, 2017
I think 'Waste' is also used for Mafia killing.
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Level 59
Mar 12, 2019
I do too. 'Waste' was the first word I thought of and then couldn't think of another. I think whack is a USAmerican usage more than mafia in Europe.
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Level 37
Sep 22, 2019
I doubt that "waste" would be used in Europe either, as it is an American word. And I'm sure that the genteel languages of Europe would have a more sophisticated word for murder.
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
Waste was my first attempt too. Definitely a term for killing people. No idea if the mafia used it or not. I did think of whack afterwards. But that is just because i ve been hit to death ( no pun intended) with that word. "ow whack, yea that is shit is whack, whack man" etc. It was quite an ambivalent word.. like crazy it could mean something bad or good..
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Level 63
Oct 4, 2017
Whinny? I tried things like Whrrrrrrr... :D
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2018
AARGH!!! I KNEW wattle but spelled it as waddle, and kept trying to change the vowel around. Maybe accept "waddle"?
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Level 69
Sep 5, 2018
Waddles are for ducks! We can't just go around interchanging poultry like that. It would lead to total anarchy.
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
Haha love this comment I can allready envision the feathery revolution ! Chaos feathers flying all around, a lot of quacking and hissing hahah... and then one lonely lost "HONK!"
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Level 77
Jul 29, 2019
On my side of the Atlantic, croquet has no wickets.
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
And croquette definitely does not have wickets... Dammit now I am hungry !!
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Level 75
Sep 22, 2019
Not sure why we call them wickets instead of hoops.
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
Bah I typed both wood and erased (cause could not remember what came after it) then started wind and erased... I though there were two terms and one start with wood and other with wind. And ending in instruments or section.

Also waddle instead of wattle.. and wasteland instead of wetland. (well the land is wasted..)

Well still not too bad 4 wrong for someone whose language isn't english.

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Level 76
Mar 3, 2020
Accept Waddle?
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Level 75
Dec 10, 2020
Sharpen a knife on stone is also in W-quiz #1.

How about "To dry a piece of material by twisting it" ? Or, "Archaic name for a maker or builder, e.g. of ships" ?

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Level 76
Apr 2, 2021
wring and wainwright? both of these are great
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Level 82
Feb 10, 2023
A wainwright builds wagons. A shipwright builds ships. A wright is someone who constructs or repairs something; the word is generally used in compounds, as above.
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Level 64
Mar 29, 2023
One who isn't but wishes he was is also wistful.
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Level 67
Sep 19, 2023
Technically, "wind" also works as an answer to the instruments question. It is a broader category that includes woodwinds.