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-Ade Vocabulary Words

These words all end in ade. How many can you name?
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Definition
Word
Score in an exam or test
Grade
Citrus-based jam
Marmalade
Temperature measurement scale
Centigrade
Military campaign to capture the Holy Land
Crusade
Place to play coin-operated video games
Arcade
Greasy substance used for styling hair
Pomade
Series of small waterfalls
Cascade
To break down naturally
Biodegrade
To convince
Persuade
Semi-precious green stone
Jade
Definition
Word
The front of a building
Facade
Playing card suit
Spade
3650 days, approximately
Decade
To enter with hostile intent
Invade
Group of about 1500 to 4000 soldiers
Brigade
To avoid, dodge, elude
Evade
To sing a love song to someone
Serenade
Open area in a woodland
Glade
Defensive barrier
Barricade
Award or honor
Accolade
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Level 75
Oct 20, 2014
If you've nailed this one, try -Ade Vocabulary Words #2.
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Level 84
Oct 22, 2014
Could you accept Defilade for defensive barrier?
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Level 75
Oct 23, 2014
Yes! Quiz updated. I hadn't heard that word before, but it fits the definition.
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Level 77
Dec 11, 2014
Possibly also blockade
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Level 78
Feb 27, 2023
I would argue that a blockade is offensive, not defensive.
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Level 75
Feb 28, 2023
We agree, which is why we don't accept blockade.
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Level 83
Oct 25, 2014
Enjoyed this one. Any reason you didn't enter the answers without the common ending? So we don't have to type the whole word?
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Level 75
Oct 25, 2014
No reason, it just didn't occur to me to do that when I wrote this!
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Level 57
Dec 8, 2014
How do you make a quiz with words that end in -ade, and not include lemonade?!
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Level 75
Dec 8, 2014
I did! It's in the number 2 quiz. All those words, no space to fit them all in...
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Level 59
Dec 8, 2014
think blockade should work for defensive barrier
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Level 73
Dec 8, 2014
Agree. I looked up the definition and they appear to be the same.
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2014
consider accepting "blockade" for defensive barrier?
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Level 75
Dec 8, 2014
A blockade is where a region's goods are blocked from being able to enter or leave, a bit like a siege, so I don't think it fits the "defensive" part of the clue here.
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Level 75
Dec 8, 2014
Thank you for accepting stockade.
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Level 75
Dec 8, 2014
You're welcome - we actually accept four different words for that clue, so here's a wee quiz for you try to guess them!
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Level 73
Dec 8, 2014
I don't know. I googled the definition and when used as a verb it says blockade is a synonym for barricade.
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Level 75
Dec 8, 2014
Let me explain another way. Have a look at this list of blockades in history - there are about 60 listed there. The interesting thing is that not one of them was defensive. They were all hostile acts aimed at a defending country or region, which is why "blockade" would not be an accurate answer to the clue Defensive barrier.
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Level 36
Dec 10, 2014
I agree...we blockade to stop arms from reaching the enemy....it was very defensive during the Cuban Missile Crisis! We were keeping nukes and other missiles out of Cuba. If that's not defensive, what it?
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Level 36
Dec 10, 2014
In fact, "barricade" is less defensive than "blockade" because police put up barricades all the time when they are not being defensive at all, they have all the power. Whereas blockades are always when a nation is getting out of hand and other countries act to hem them in, keep them from carrying out offensive actions.
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Level 85
Dec 8, 2014
I'm a Dapper Dan man.
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Level 54
Dec 9, 2014
Pomade????

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

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Level 50
Dec 10, 2014
Huzzah, full marks. Pleased with my brain for giving me 'accolade' and 'pomade'. I love finding out I know words but haven't the first clue why I know them.
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Level 57
Dec 10, 2014
Come on, you never got an accolade!
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Level 71
Dec 3, 2015
For 'Test Score' all I could think about was Cricket.
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Level 75
Dec 3, 2015
:) We've lodged a fine-tuning edit.
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Level 95
Jan 17, 2019
In a decade there are 3652 or 3653 days, because of leap years.
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2019
Hence approximately in the clue.
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2019
Could you pleassee add tardigrade, it islike the greatest thing ever haha They are like a microscopic cross between a caterpillar and a naked molerat wearing a gasmask (with a touch of gummibear)They are aweome!

It was one of the first things I thought of seeing the quiz title. Thought it might be on nr2 but wasnt there either. You could make the description something like: well several ways to describes it size, survival skills, gasmask look, the meaning of the name. I guess "micro-animal who looks like it is wearing a gasmask" or more difficult, whose name means slow walker

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Level 68
Jan 24, 2022
A "cascade" is not a series of waterfalls. Rather, a cascade is a *single* waterfall that typically forms part of a series.
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Level 75
Jan 24, 2022
That's a bit subtle, and in any case this dictionary begs to differ.
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Level 68
Jun 4, 2022
It might be subtle but, regardless, the definition in the quiz is fundamentally incorrect. A cascade is analogous to a hair - it's typically one constituent of a group (of waterfalls or hairs), but it doesn't have to be, and the word refers to the single object.

Reliable dictionaries confirm this, e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cascade

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Level 75
Jun 5, 2022
Collins Dictionary, Open Dictionary and dictionary.com all include a "series of waterfalls over rocks" as a meaning of "cascade". Beware of declaring other dictionaries to be "reliable" simply because they agree with your opinion.
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Level 68
Jun 5, 2022
Open Dictionary and dictionary.com are not reliable.

Of dictionaries that are reliable - e.g. Cambridge, Merriam Webster and, yes, Collins - "a single waterfall" is always the first definition and, in most cases, the only noun definition.

The best approach would be to change the clue so that it says "a waterfall, or a series of waterfalls".

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Level 78
Sep 27, 2022
Here's the online Oxford English Dictionary entry. Make of it what you will.

Etymology: < French cascade, < Italian cascata fall, < cascare to fall: see -ade suffix.

1. A waterfall.

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a. Usually, a small waterfall; esp. one of a series of small falls, formed by water in its descent over rocks, or in the artificial works of the kind introduced in landscape gardening.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 71 Divers springs of Water & artificial Cascads.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 315 The Fountains, the Cascatas, the Grottas, the Girandola, and the other rare waterworks.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 11 The underwork of an artificial cascade.

1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi i. App. 50 Springs which form small cascades as they tumble over the cliffs.

1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiii. 101 For a quarter of a mile the water comes down in a series of small cascades.

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Level 75
Oct 25, 2022
Accept blockade for barricade?