Past Daily Challenge
August 29, 2026
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Question 1 · adjective
arousing or provoking laughter
Answer: funny
funny stories that made everybody laugh
Original choices and explanations
- cute
- obviously contrived to charm
- funny
- arousing or provoking laughter
- weird
- strikingly odd or unusual
- silly
- ludicrous, foolish
Question 2 · adverb
(used as intensives) excessively
Answer: insanely
insanely jealous
Original choices and explanations
- extraordinarily
- to a surprising degree
- outrageously
- in a very offensive manner
- insanely
- (used as intensives) excessively
- impossibly
- to a degree impossible of achievement
Question 3 · verb
organize into a code or system, such as a body of law
Answer: codify
Hammurabi codify the laws
Original choices and explanations
- enshrine
- hold sacred
- institutionalize
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- formalize
- make formal or official
- codify
- organize into a code or system, such as a body of law
Question 4 · noun
the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
Answer: extravagance
we were surprised by the extravagance of his description
Original choices and explanations
- extravagance
- the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
- vulgarity
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- opulence
- wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
- ostentation
- a gaudy outward display
Question 5 · noun
the property of being untamed and ferocious
Answer: savageness
the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters
Original choices and explanations
- bloodthirstiness
- a disposition to shed blood
- savageness
- the property of being untamed and ferocious
- animalism
- the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
- mercilessness
- feelings of extreme heartlessness
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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