Day 12

Question 1

ford

Answer 1

Place where a river or similar body of water is
shallow enough to walk or ride a vehicle
across (noun); to cross at such a place (verb)

” didn’t attempt getting the horses across the stream until we had reached the ford”

Question 2

foreshadow

Answer 2

Indicate or suggest beforehand, presage

The hero’s predicament is foreshadowed in the first chapter.

Question 3

fortify

Answer 3

Strengthen, invigorate, encourage

a city fortified by high walls

Question 4

fracas

Answer 4

Noisy disturbance or fight; brawl

police preparing for any fracas that might follow the soccer game

Question 5

fractious

Answer 5

Unruly, troublemaking; irritable

And, on the fractious little planet that is biotech Twitter, aducanumab presents an opportunity to play out the eteplirsen debate on the grandest scale yet, with more kremlinology, more circular logic, and more vitriol.

Question 6

frenetic

Answer 6

Wildly excited, frantic, distracted

a frenetic attempt to beat a deadline

Question 7

fringe

Answer 7

On the margin, periphery (adj); the people in a

group who hold the most extreme views (noun)

Question 8

fulminate

Answer 8

Explode, detonate; attack verbally in a
vehement, thunderous way

She was fulminating about the dangers of smoking.

Question 9

gainsay

Answer 9

Declare false, deny; oppose

repeatedly tried to gainsay me, though every point I made was backed up by facts

Question 10

gambol

Answer 10

Frolic; skip or leap playfully

dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park’s great lawn

Question 11

garner

Answer 11

Gather and store; amass, collect

The senator has spent much time garnering financial support for his upcoming campaign.

Question 12

gawky

Answer 12

Physically awkward (esp. of a tall, skinny
person, often used to describe teenagers)

Question 13

gestation

Answer 13

Pregnancy; the period from conception until
birth of an animal or (metaphorically) of an
idea or plan

Question 14

gist

Answer 14

Main idea, essence

Question 15

glacial

Answer 15

Pertaining to glaciers; cold, icy, slow,
unsympathetic

Progress on the bill has been glacial.

Question 16

glower

Answer 16

Stare in an angry, sullen way

The librarian glowered at us when she heard us laughing.

Question 17

goad

Answer 17

Urge on (as cattle) with a pointed or
electrically charged stick; spur on,
stimulate, encourage

tried to goad me into auditioning for the play

Question 18

gouge

Answer 18

Scooping or digging tool, like a chisel, or a
hole made with such a tool (noun); cut or
scoop out; force out a person’s eye with
one’s thumb; swindle, extort money from
(verb)

The lamp fell and gouged the table.

Question 19

gradation

Answer 19

A progression, a process taking place
gradually, in stages; one of these stages

the gradations of evolutionary development

Question 20

graft

Answer 20

Insert part of a plant into another plant,
where it continues to grow; join living tissue
(such as skin) to part of the body where it
will continue to live and grow; attach as if
by grafting (verb); the part so grafted (as in
a graft of skin); the act of acquiring money
or other benefits through illegal means, esp.
by abusing one’s power (noun)

Question 21

grandstand

Answer 21

Perform showily in an attempt to impress
onlookers

The outfielder made a grandstand play out of what should have been a routine catch.

Question 22

grating

Answer 22

Irritating; harsh or discordant (of a noise);
scraping

It’s not just that the interruptions themselves are grating to watch: what’s worse is the hostilities they create.