Past Daily Challenge
September 2, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return
Answer: giving
the alumni followed a program of annual giving
Original choices and explanations
- leaving
- the act of departing
- giving
- disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return
- give
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- taking
- the act of someone who picks up or takes something
Question 2 · noun
the capacity to attract intense interest
Answer: fascination
he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascination
Original choices and explanations
- ambivalence
- mixed feelings or emotions
- obsession
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- fascination
- the capacity to attract intense interest
- curiosity
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
Question 3 · verb
expel, as if by official decree
Answer: banish
he was banish from his own country
Original choices and explanations
- abolish
- do away with
- erase
- remove from memory or existence
- eradicate
- kill in large numbers
- banish
- expel, as if by official decree
Question 4 · adjective
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Answer: avaricious
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
Original choices and explanations
- avaricious
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
- venal
- capable of being corrupted
- conscienceless
- lacking a conscience
- rapacious
- excessively greedy and grasping
Question 5 · verb
change completely the nature or appearance of
Answer: transfigure
The treatment and diet transfigure her into a beautiful young woman
Original choices and explanations
- suffuse
- cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
- transfigure
- change completely the nature or appearance of
- remould
- cast again
- vivify
- give new life or energy to
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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