Past Daily Challenge
August 30, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
Answer: pull
he was sidelined with a hamstring pull
Original choices and explanations
- plug
- an old or over-worked horse
- trigger
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- pull
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- carry
- the act of carrying something
Question 2 · adverb
in a very impressive manner
Answer: dramatically
your performance will improve dramatically
Original choices and explanations
- tremendously
- vastly
- substantially
- to a great extent or degree
- greatly
- to an extraordinary extent or degree
- dramatically
- in a very impressive manner
Question 3 · adjective
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Answer: astute
an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease
Original choices and explanations
- astute
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- deft
- skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
- canny
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
- insightful
- exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
Question 4 · adjective
adjacent to the nasal cavities
Answer: paranasal
paranasal sinus
Original choices and explanations
- crural
- of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot
- paranasal
- adjacent to the nasal cavities
- suppurative
- relating to or characterized by suppuration
- interlobular
- between lobes or lobules
Question 5 · adverb
without warmth or enthusiasm
Answer: frostily
‘Come in if you have to,’ he said frostily
Original choices and explanations
- gruffly
- in a gruff manner
- affably
- in an affable manner
- frostily
- without warmth or enthusiasm
- irritably
- in a petulant manner
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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