FACEBOOK WORD QUIZZES-1301-1400

FACEBOOK PUZZLES-#1301-1400

1301-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes inaudible ostentation  

1302-Discern the convergent words:   fly-passion-cup   soup-fat-garden     milk-oil-shell-   

1303-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes an exterior way 

1304-Discern the convergent words    court-kick-rat    ass-jacket-kick cock-blue-hood

1305-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a baroque expiator   

1306-Discern the convergent words    blue-meridian-less    crack-start-god   blade-pad-cold

1307-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a love affair in a northern Italian city  

1308-Discern the convergent words shell-digger-up   shell-mattress-man    shell-wing-chest 

1309-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a flow of refugees out of Syria   

1310-Discern the convergent words   hot-butter-beach    lab-dip-dark   seeds-juice-salad

1311-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a lousy movie

1312- Discern the convergent words lens-let-limit     ball-wedding-tea   sport-sack-sugar

1313-Name a 2 word anagrammatic question that challenges the notion that winter weather is getting warmer

1314-Discern the convergent words glass-mom-lily    late-oil-apple   colony-pelt

1315-What do these words have in common? swastika-aryan-musk

1316-Discern the convergent words    dry-cocktail-vodka  arm-store-man   dog-sauce-pepper

1317-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes porcine muscle

1318-Discern the convergent words   river-dry-guard   reading-face-beach    canal-less-app

1319-What do these words have in common? continent-emirate-finale   

1320-Discern the convergent words     headed-ion-red  pit-flicker-bane  ding-sausage-wild 

1321-What do these words have in common?   feta-firedamp-microramanmeter-sobriety    

1322-Discern the convergent words   elbow-sticky-cap    root-soup-stick      smart-jar-cutter

1323-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that could describe one of the functions of Facebook    

1324-Discern the convergent words islands-wharf-yellow      dog-head-ma  worm-out-sea

1325-What do these words have in common   useless-slavery-cashew  

1326-Discern the convergent words    acid-long-a      acid-tolerate-flat     acid-language-tied

1327-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes the least annoying bug   

1328-Discern the convergent words     box-trade-boxing      poodle-over-I    patterns-peasant-bypass

1329-What do these words have in common?    jai alai-Izarra-Euskarian

1330-Discern the convergent words     mental-urine-flying      pot-hip-bald   golden-sugar-led

1331-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes  an eternity

1332-Discern the convergent words    toy-skirt-cut        cat-pit-wooly   round-cock-yellow

1333-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a  type of boat   

1334-Discern the convergent words speed-carbon-see  apple-up-nut   moon-chart-hole

1335-What do these words have in common?     rainforest-diabetes-carpentry

1336-Discern the convergent words      man-monkey-mum     jet-Irish-pace   corn-oil-bit

1337-Name a 5 word palindromic phrase that means Star of Cosby Show didn’t try this herb.

1338-Discern the convergent words   hold-hole-holy    ups-an-kicks     chop-fat-pie

1339-What do these words have in common?    serendipity-denim-badminton 

1340-Discern the convergent words    pie-rose-pirates   pulling-pin-chest    a-off-breaking

1341-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a royal glower  

1342-Discern the convergent words     lice-license-running    lily-mom-shark     hawk-yellow-feed

1343-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes a weaker regime

1344-Discern the convergent words     crew-flower-framework   identify-gold-cooking    or-fire-bar

1345-Name a 2 word palindromic phrase that describes a nervous twitch that manifests itself in an urban environment  

1346-Discern the convergent words    spot-sour-garlic   pot-moon-brown    cake-salmon-burger

1347-What do these words have in common?      ammonia-salary-salad           

1348-Discern the convergent words    bread-butter-breath     case-wing-hard       mar-dry-be

1349-What do these words have in common?    auspicious-augur-halcyon

1350-Discern the convergent words     long-chair-dis     long-hold-a     long-do-ball

1351-What do these words have in common?     astral-disaster-consider

1352-Discern the convergent words     rice-ban-sugar   brief-bay-state   hatch-prize- trap  

1353-What do these words have in common?     wheels-crown-bottle-suits  

1354-Discern the convergent words   entry-cavil-us    pack-lab-her    ford-phoenix-ugly

1355-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that means see the opposite 

1356-Discern the convergent words    beat-stern-half     beat-take-by   beat-sing-eye

1357-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that means change warning signal 

1358-Discern the convergent words     garter-oil-eyes    up-pit-pea         pin-wood-ring

1359-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that means besmirches progeny of Gaia + Uranus   

1360-Discern the convergent words    drum-talking-lights     drum-app-wig   drum-tight-alive

1361-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that means keep the obstinate  

1362-Discern the convergent words    hard-hair-high   ability-monkey-long   free-kick-strap

1363-What do these words have in common?   choked-isthmal-galore-enlarge

1364-Discern the convergent words     raw-chutzpah-gas   orange-sport-young  ascending-cancer-semi

1365-What do these words have in common?   penicillin-orchid-testify-avocado

1366-Discern the convergent words   pro-tail-in     around-comeback-ding   computer-trap-church

1367-What do these words have in common?      business-wit-writing 

1368-Discern the convergent words     church-mighty-trap    wild-ground-tied   antelope-for-pin

1369-What do these words have in common?       amok-orangutan-cassowary

1370-Discern the convergent words    singing-dry-cut    gay-dive-broken     pink-shut-contact

1371-What do these words have in common?   wad-polo-slam 

1372-Discern the convergent words    it-an-by    out-punch-sea     west-disc-past

1373-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes couples in a particular world capital 

1374-Discern the convergent words    coo-tongue-rod   Christmas-blue-cap    up-pink-betting

1375-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes Indonesian upheavals    

1376-Discern the convergent words     holy-Indian-bar    on-mobile-bar    house-out-word 

1377-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that describes an African ballet dancer     

1378-Discern the convergent words    ate-Sunday-beach    guard-loud-dart    turn-pony-ox

1379-What do these words have in common?   mulligatawny-catamaran-anaconda-beriberi

1380-Discern the convergent words    ox-pays-fat    glad-sore-evil   biter-bracelet-deep  

1381-What do these words have in common?   debonair- pedigree-jeopardy 

1382-Discern the convergent words      road-rock-away   bowl-fuzz-state      brandy-pie-age

1383-What do these words have in common?      fizzle-partridge-petard  

1384-Discern the convergent words    board-micro-silicon     board-money-winner      board-whiz-say

1385-What do these words have in common?       apricot-tariff-carat

1386-Discern the convergent words    fox-cock-dove   off-fountain-office   ion-bow-rest

1387-What do these words have in common?         jungle-juggernaut-bandanna

1388-Discern the convergent words    cut-clearing-white     cut-pin-oil    cut-split-fat

1389-What do these words have in common?         ailed-inure-ford

1390-Discern the convergent words    code-western-tubing   revolution-duck-bowl    town-boiled-head

1391-What do these words have in common?       meter-corner-roster

1392-Discern the convergent words    manhandle-nee-print    paint-bowl-roll      less-wrenching-rot

1393-What do these words have in common?      pouting-align- gland

1394-Discern the convergent words    chef-French-shop     shrimp-bar-hour     blond-bee-pot

1395-Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that could describe someone born in Kolkatta but residing in Molenbeek

1396-Discern the convergent words    ping-up-pink    rein-hit-rust   rain-in-bra

1397-What do these placenames have in common?      Honduras- Nice-England-Fargo-Lahore-Chad

1398-Discern the convergent words    can-copy-go     angel-tiger-tank   berry-cap-skin

1399-What do these words have in common?      cereal-pander-tantalize

1400-Discern the convergent words    end-leg-damage       ice-board-cheap    old-on-her 

HOW POLITICS HIJACKS WORDS

            (The Following Article first appeared in the April 2016  Lexpert)

              Politics Hijacks Words

                                  

                                  by

                          

                       Howard Richler

As we North Americans have been barraged by political verbiage over the last two years, I am reminded of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s quip that “war is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”  Actually, von Clausewitz may have reversed the categories as several terms found in politics were found originally in the military arena. For example, both campaign and rally acquired military senses in the 17^th century and political ones only in the 19^th century.

We see an interplay with politics in other domains. Take religion, specifically Catholicism as two common political terms were born in the Vatican. Propaganda comes from the Latin phrase Congregation du propaganda fide, “Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith” founded in 1622 by a committee of Cardinals responsible for foreign missions during the papacy of Gregory XV. It is in the 19^th century that the word acquired its political sense of the systematic dissemination of information, often in a biased sense. And if you find political nepotism as unsavoury as propaganda, again there is a papal connection. It seems that some of the early Popes liked to bestow special favours upon their nephews, (as well as their illegitimate sons) and in Latin the word for nephew is nepos. By the 19^th century the word was broadened to refer to conferring unfair preferment to friends or those within ones sphere of influence. Also, in the 17^th century, the word charisma, oft applied to political leaders, had a strictly theological application and referred to the free gift of God’s grace. The modern sense of the magnetic appeal of someone only arose in the 1940s.

The language of politics has borrowed from other disciplines. Cynics will not be shocked to discover that a political term has been hijacked from the domain of piracy. I refer to the word filibuster which derives from the Dutch vrijbuiter which combines the word vrij, “free” and bueter, “plunderer.” Originally, filibuster referred to pirates who pillaged the colonies in the Spanish West Indies during the 17^th century. However, in the middle of the 19^th century bands of adventurers organized expeditions from the United States, in violation of international law, for the purpose of revolutionizing certain states in Central America and the West Indies. By the end of the 19^th century, the word came to refer to long-winded U.S. Senators whose obstructive practices were seen as akin to the havoc created by marauding pirates; they effectively hijacked the agenda of the Senate.

The term caucus in North America refers to the members of a legislative assembly that belong to a particular party. Most etymologists believe that the word was adapted from the Algonquin Caw-cawaassough, which means “counsellor.” The Algonquin word was recorded in a journal by Captain John Smith of Pocahontas fame in the early part of the 17^th century with the sense of one who advises or encourages. Caucus first surfaced in New England in the early part of the 18^th century and was virtually unknown in British English until the 1870s when it became a popular political buzzword.

Recently, the electoral district Sarnia-Lambton in Ontario became the champion bellwether riding in Canada having voted for the winning part in every election since 1963. Both of these italicized words have a political sense that is restricted mostly to Canada. Originally, a bellwether designated the head sheep of a flock whose prize for leadership was having a bell hung around its neck  - wether is a term for a male sheep or castrated ram.   By the 1930s the sense of “indicating a trend” emerged. The electoral sense of riding, however, is not a Canadian coinage but rather one has to look to Yorkshire, England for the provenance. Until 1974, Yorkshire was divided into three ridings and the word riding came into English in the 15^th century from Old Norse thrithjungr, which originally was rendered riding in English as trithing.

While the word hustings is now used almost exclusively to refer to the rounds of political activity during an election, its origin was quite different. As early as the 11^th century it was rendered singular as husting which literally means “house thing” with thing referring to a council meeting. Over time, it referred specifically to the court of law in the Guildhall of London. It was only in the 20^th century that it acquired the modern sense of electioneering.

And finally, the current sense of poll as in “going to the polls” arose only in the 17^th century. The source of the word is its literal meaning “head” and this was its sense starting in the 13^th century. One way of counting votes in an election is by counting heads as seen in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in 1607 when Coriolanus states “We are the greater poll, and in true fear they gave us our demands.”

Perhaps the proposed electoral reform in Canada or the election this year in the U.S. will afford some marauding politician the opportunity to hijack other words.

Richler’s book Wordplay:Arranged & Deranged Wit will be published in April 2016.