Past Daily Challenge
August 27, 2026
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Question 1 · adverb
in actuality or reality or fact
Answer: effectively
she is effectively his wife
Original choices and explanations
- appropriately
- in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances
- successfully
- with success; in a successful manner
- efficiently
- with efficiency; in an efficient manner
- effectively
- in actuality or reality or fact
Question 2 · adverb
in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
Answer: fairly
they played fairly
Original choices and explanations
- fairly
- in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
- relatively
- in a relative manner; by comparison to something else
- equally
- to the same degree (often followed by ‘as’)
- remarkably
- in a signal manner
Question 3 · adjective
having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
Answer: arrogant
an arrogant official
Original choices and explanations
- cocky
- overly self-confident or self-assertive
- arrogant
- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
- pompous
- puffed up with vanity
- condescending
- (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
Question 4 · adjective
indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
Answer: devious
used devious means to achieve success
Original choices and explanations
- conniving
- acting with a specific goal
- cunning
- marked by skill in deception
- devious
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
- duplicitous
- marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
Question 5 · adjective
facing away from the axis of an organ or organism
Answer: abaxial
the abaxial surface of a leaf is the underside or side facing away from the stem
Original choices and explanations
- papillose
- of or relating to or resembling papilla
- crenate
- having a margin with rounded scallops
- tripinnate
- (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate
- abaxial
- facing away from the axis of an organ or organism
Definitions and examples adapted from Princeton WordNet and the Open English WordNet team’s 2025 data. Lexifour rewrites clues and explanations and blanks example sentences; this archive preserves the game’s original wording and choice order. License and attribution notices; Open English WordNet development is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reference: McCrae, Rademaker, Bond, Rudnicka, and Fellbaum (2019), English WordNet 2019 – An Open-Source WordNet for English.
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