May 2023

Question 1

Missteps & Miscalculations

Answer 1

Mr. DeSantis and his allies are retooling his expected run for the White House after a series of missteps and miscalculations allowed Donald J. Trump to define the 2024 Republican race.

Question 2

Coincided

Answer 2

And a legislative session in Tallahassee designed to burnish his conservative credentials has instead coincided with a drop in the polls.

Question 3

Cocooning
Outflanking
Narrative

Answer 3

Combined with Mr. DeSantis’s cocooning himself in the right-wing media and the Trump team’s success in outflanking him on several fronts, the governor has lost control of his own national narrative.

Question 4

Staunchest
Recalibrate

Answer 4

His staunchest supporters privately acknowledge that Mr. DeSantis needs to recalibrate a political outreach and media strategy that has allowed Mr. Trump to define the race.

Question 5

Appeal, Escalating, Feud, Unnerved

Answer 5

And the moves he has made to appeal to the hard right — escalating his feud with Disney, signing a strict six-week abortion ban — have unnerved donors who are worried about the general election.

Question 6

Soured

Answer 6

Three billionaires who are major G.O.P. donors — Steve Wynn, Ike Perlmutter and Thomas Peterffy, a past DeSantis patron who has publicly soured on him — dined recently with Vivek Ramaswamy, the 37-year-old long-shot Republican.

Question 7

Peppered

Answer 7

And a supportive super PAC called Never Back Down is staffing up across more than a dozen states, has already spent more than $10 million on television ads and has peppered early states with direct mail.

Question 8

Momentum, Touting, False Narratives, Spewing

Answer 8

“Now, the governor can create momentum by spending time publicly touting his endless accomplishments, calling supporters and engaging more publicly to push back on the false narratives his potential competitors are spewing,” said Nick Iarossi, a lobbyist in Florida and a longtime DeSantis supporter.

Question 9

Woes

Answer 9

Yet Mr. Trump’s compounding legal woes and potential future indictments could eventually have the opposite effect — exhausting voters, which is Mr. DeSantis’s hope.

Question 10

Hype

Answer 10

The DeSantis team seemed to buy its own hype.

Question 11

One-Upped

Answer 11

But it has been Mr. Trump who has consistently one-upped Mr. DeSantis, flying into East Palestine, Ohio, after the rail disaster there, appearing with a larger crowd in the same Iowa city days after Mr. DeSantis and swiping Florida congressional endorsements while Mr. DeSantis traveled to Washington.

Question 12

Insinuated

Answer 12

Mr. Trump has insinuated, without providing evidence, that Mr. DeSantis had inappropriate relationships with high school girls during a stint as a teacher in the early 2000s and that Mr. DeSantis might be gay.

Question 13

Inept, Uncouth

Answer 13

His team has portrayed Mr. DeSantis as socially inept, and a pro-Trump super PAC distributed a video — dubbed “Pudding Fingers” — playing off news articles about Mr. DeSantis’s uncouth eating habits.

Question 14

Pejorative

Answer 14

His team has portrayed Mr. DeSantis as socially inept, and a pro-Trump super PAC distributed a video — dubbed “Pudding Fingers” — playing off news articles about Mr. DeSantis’s uncouth eating habits.

Question 15

Begrudgingly, Tight Lipped

Question 16

Fiddled, Engaged

Answer 16

Donors who contributed to Mr. DeSantis’s previous campaigns tell stories of meetings in which the candidate looked as though he would rather be anywhere else. He fiddled with his phone, showed no interest in his hosts and escaped as quickly as possible. But people who have recently met with Mr. DeSantis say he has been far more engaged.

Question 17

Perched

Answer 17

Perched at the side of a country road near Lake Erie in southeastern Ontario, an uninhabited, partially collapsed 19th-century farmhouse cuts an eerily elegant figure against the wide-open sky and the corn, soybean and wheat fields that surround it.

Question 18

Dystopian

Answer 18

“It’s got this dystopian charm,” said Ms. Wright, a retired professional photographer and graphic artist from Ridgetown, Ontario. “I like to get the whole wide-angle effect of the cornfields going back. It adds to the isolation of it.”

Question 19

Bygone Era

Answer 19

The news has devastated Canadian photographers who see in the house the faded grandeur of a bygone era in rural Ontario when farmers across the province lived in houses like it with wood stoves, wells and no running water.

Question 20

An expression that originated within the military pilot community to describe a mental state characterized by unnaturally high stress and task saturation, which can often result in the loss of situational awareness.

Answer 20

A Helmet Fire

Question 21

Pandering

Answer 21

And no other university would have me, ostensibly because of my unsavory reputation. The true reason, of course, was that my theories were too bizarre for academic tastes. I stood accused of attempting to make a fortune by pandering to the common man’s taste for pseudoscience and sensationalism, of selling my credibility.”

Question 22

Alienate

Answer 22

“Savvy businesspeople know that using a lot of professional jargon will only alienate clients.”

Question 23

Coup De Grace

Answer 23

The coup de grâce came a few days later when we obtained a new letter CMS had sent to Theranos.

Question 24

Freewheeling

Answer 24

But the days of unsupervised, freewheeling medical experimentation by the military were long gone.

Question 25

Chided

Answer 25

To voice disapproval to : reproach in a usually mild and constructive manner : SCOLD

She chided us for arriving late.

At a dramatic, nearly four-hour hearing, Judge Amit P. Mehta chided Mr. Rhodes for seeking for years through his leadership of the Oath Keepers to have American democracy “devolve into violence.”

Question 26

Cordial

Answer 26

showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval. Polite, pleasant, and friendly.

My husband and I had been going through a cordial separation process for half a year when Jessie, our 12-year-old rescue lab, got sick.

Question 27

Labored

Answer 27

Produced or performed with labor.

Her breathing became labored, she was losing weight without explanation, and she would stick close to me with a persistent melancholy that I couldn’t ignore.

Question 28

Melancholy

Answer 28

Depression of spirits. Down in the dumps.

Her breathing became labored, she was losing weight without explanation, and she would stick close to me with a persistent melancholy that I couldn’t ignore.

Question 29

Bereft

Answer 29

Suffering the loss of a loved one.

She died four months later, I was bereft.

Question 30

Amicable

Answer 30

Friendly, goodwill, peaceable

No matter that we had an amicable divorce and still communicated frequently, even had some holidays together.