Statistics for Ends in "-oil"

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
To cook food in a pot of very hot water, or, a painful abcess	Boil	100%
Sheets of very thin metal, such as aluminum or tin, or, to thwart a villain's nefarious plans ("Curses!")	Foil	96%
To wind something in spirals, like wire or rope	Coil	91%
Many terrestrial plants need this to grow in	Soil	91%
To cook food with high heat from above	Broil	83%
To draw back in fear or disgust, or, the "kick" from a gun or rifle	Recoil	83%
To "go bad" as with food, or, to intentionally ruin something	Spoil	83%
Essential cooking ingredient that can be made from olives, coconuts, peanuts or "canolas"(?)	Oil	74%
To involve someone, often in an unpleasant situtuation	Embroil	70%
A state of confusuion or commotion	Turmoil	65%
A young woman in Brooklyn or parts of New Jersey	Goil	57%
To partially cook food in very hot water, as with rice	Parboil	52%
A wing on a boat, or a boat with wings in the water, as pictured above	Hydrofoil	43%
Grass grows best in a rich layer of this	Topsoil	43%
Engineering term for the shape of a plane's wing	Airfoil or aerofoil	39%
To "muddy the waters" or stir up sediment	Roil	35%
To cook food with high heat from below, as in grilling	Charbroil	22%