Words Pertaining to Things #1

For each word below, guess what it pertains to. For example, Canine = Dogs.
All the answers are a SINGLE WORD
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First submittedAugust 1, 2013
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Word
Pertains to …
Solar
Sun
Feline
Cats
Regal
Royalty
Feminine
Women
Stellar
Stars
Botanical
Plants
Papal
Pope
Paternal
Father
Optic
Eye
Imperial
Empire
Corporeal
Body
Natal
Birth
Sylvan
Forest
Gustatory
Taste
Renal
Kidneys
Seismic
Earthquakes
Pedagogic
Education
Cutaneous
Skin
Simian
Apes
Pneumatic
Air
Nuptial
Marriage
Avian
Birds
Tactile
Touch
Domestic
Home
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Level 78
Aug 15, 2013
"Education" is awfully general - and vague. Tried "lesson" "instructor" "professor" "instruction" "class" "learning" "dialogue" "teach" and "teacher" and NONE of those could be accepted?
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Level 82
Sep 26, 2013
maybe female for feminine, house for domestic, and gardens/flowers for botanical would also be good type-ins?

circopithican: of or relating to monkeys. For some reason I always remembered that from my Creative Writing teacher's dictionary of obscure words, though I don't think I've ever seen the word anywhere else including other dictionaries.

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Level ∞
Sep 26, 2013
@Nyackjohn: "Learning" or "Teaching" would have worked.

@kalbahamut: "House" will work now.

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Level 67
Nov 17, 2015
Struthious. And, no, it's not a word created by Stephen Colbert.
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Level 39
Nov 17, 2015
'Circopithecus' features as one of Captain Haddock's expletives thrown at a group of monkeys in The Red Rackham's Treasure.
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Level 62
May 30, 2016
I tried "girl" for Feminine. While it's good that most answers accept both singular and plural forms of the answer, the answers themselves are oddly inconsistent in that respect.
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Level 35
Jun 3, 2014
Agreed. I put teacher, instructor, professor, student, school, etc.
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2019
Almost all of your options seem off, like school or textbook would not be right either. Teach and learning are the only ones that sound good.
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Level 77
Sep 21, 2013
There's only one 'r' in forest.
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Level 82
Sep 26, 2013
Not if played by Tom Hanks.
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Level ∞
Sep 26, 2013
Fixed
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Level 68
Jan 29, 2014
"Optic" should be about light. Eye just relates to the human body.
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Level 66
Sep 22, 2014
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Level 46
Dec 31, 2014
Make that +2. And corporeal is anything to do with the physical world...as opposed to ethereal.
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Level ∞
Aug 9, 2015
Light will work now for that one.
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2019
Please dont. Optic comes from sight/seeing and not a word to do with light... Optics with an s is a different word that can mean study of sight and behaviour of light. But the optic in that word still pertains to seeing.. The answer for light would probably something with lumen.

light being the answer for optic is as logical as speach being the answer to audio, yes you can hear it, but is not the origin of the word. And has nothing to do with the root.

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Level 66
Jun 18, 2019
It definately should not. Optic refers to sight or seeing. Just because light is something we see does not mean the word optic means that.

Edit: if it was opticS you would have a point, that is used to refer to the science of sight AND light. But the word optic literally comes from to see...

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Level 62
May 11, 2014
Had no idea what cutaneous meant, but I got the answer because "Cat" was accepted even though I typed "cats", then I started to type in "Kings" for royalty, and the rollover 's' from cats + the 'kin' from kings = skin. Nice side effect from accepting singular answers. Thanks!
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2014
That's probably the most awesome thing to happen on Jetpunk.
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Level 77
Sep 8, 2014
Damn, I shouldn't have paid so much attention to the letters already there. It was the only one I missed!
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Level 75
Jan 29, 2015
I first started typing gastronomic for gustatory and gas gave me air for pneumatic. I repeat, I love freebies.
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Level 65
Jun 30, 2015
Mat and Pat Ernal.
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Level 60
Jul 18, 2015
Feminine is "women," but not "female"? The colloquial interpretation of feminine is female.
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Level ∞
Aug 9, 2015
Female will work now.
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Level 41
Nov 17, 2015
Taking Latin can really help you with this quiz.
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Level 59
Nov 17, 2015
Or speaking French ;)
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Level 56
Nov 17, 2015
Or having a decent level of education....
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Level 17
Nov 18, 2015
great quiz!
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Level 63
Jan 17, 2016
Here's version #4 of this Quiz, in case you're interested http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/115649/words-pertaining-to-things-4
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Level 82
Aug 30, 2016
When I first clicked one of these quizzes, I had no idea what to expect. "Words Pertaining to Things" is possibly the vaguest name you could give to indicate a quiz topic, apart from perhaps just "Stuff". Presumably all words pertain to things in one way or another.
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Level 69
Sep 6, 2016
Its genericness is what attracted me!
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2019
Hah seeing your comment makes me realize why i used the word pertain in a previous one. I thought wow from which depths of my mind came that word from, .. somewhere closeby it seems haha
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Level 61
Mar 10, 2017
Thought "pedagogic" meant "foot" due to root word "ped."
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Level 27
May 13, 2020
I was thinking it had something to do with children, which was sort of correct I suppose.
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Level 68
Feb 12, 2021
From ancient Greek: πούς, ποδός (pous, podos) = the foot, and παῖς, παιδός (pais, paidos) = the child.
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Level 66
Apr 13, 2019
Did not know "gustatory", so guessed "wind"!
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Level 76
Apr 13, 2019
Got 100% just by speaking Portuguese. Yay for Latin.
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Level 45
Apr 14, 2019
Wow this is so easy when you speak a romance language.
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2019
I got all but pneumatic took me some thought, was trying stuff like closed pressurised system. I think i was gonna try simply air pressure next when air was accepted. Had never heard of the gusto one. First it reminded me of gastro, and then of gusto. I tried intestines (but apparently gastro only refers to the stomach) and taste and things like that.
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Level 68
Feb 12, 2021
From the ancien Greek πνεῦμα (pneuma) = air, breath, or spirit.
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Level 27
May 13, 2020
Could you accept 'dad' for father, 'food' for taste(?), and 'feel' for tactile? And maybe 'school' for education?
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Level 64
Aug 4, 2020
2:49... for a Frenchman, that's piece of cake :)

Thanks!

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Level 67
Apr 2, 2021
To an Italian too!
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Level 50
Jun 8, 2021
Please accept "wood" for sylvan.
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Level 67
Mar 29, 2023
Great quiz. I should have gotten the Sylvan question as some of my work is associated with sylviculture.
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Level 51
Mar 29, 2023
Got one wrong because I could not think of "birth" in "natal". Tried "baby", "child", "mother", "pregnancy"... Very good quiz!
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Level 51
Mar 29, 2023
spanish speaker feeling like a cheater lol
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Level 26
Apr 3, 2023
mother should count for paternal