Past Daily Challenge
September 1, 2026
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Question 1 · adjective
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Answer: fantastic
a fantastic trip to the Orient
Original choices and explanations
- fantastic
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- awesome
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
- brilliant
- of surpassing excellence
- spectacular
- characteristic of spectacles or drama
Question 2 · verb
start to burn or burst into flames
Answer: ignite
Marsh gases ignite suddenly
Original choices and explanations
- explode
- burst outward, usually with noise
- ignite
- start to burn or burst into flames
- spark
- emit or produce sparks
- rekindle
- arouse again
Question 3 · noun
the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
Answer: misdirection
conjurers are experts at misdirection
Original choices and explanations
- trickery
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- obfuscation
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
- misdirection
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
- sophistry
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Question 4 · noun
inappropriate levity
Answer: flippancy
Annika reacted to Tom's flippancy with a cool stare
Original choices and explanations
- glibness
- a kind of fluent easy superficiality
- facetiousness
- playful humor
- crassness
- the quality of being crass — devoid of refinement
- flippancy
- inappropriate levity
Question 5 · noun
an anti-inflammatory agent that is produced from willow bark.
Answer: salicin
salicin is an alcoholic β-glucoside.
Original choices and explanations
- salicin
- an anti-inflammatory agent that is produced from willow bark.
- flavone
- a colorless crystalline compound that is part of a number of white or yellow plant pigments
- saponin
- any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers
- pyrogallol
- a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer
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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