Past Daily Challenge
September 6, 2026
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Question 2 · verb
enlarge or increase
Answer: augment
The recent speech of the president augment tensions in the Near East
Original choices and explanations
- supplant
- take the place or move into the position of
- bolster
- add padding to
- augment
- enlarge or increase
- enrich
- make wealthy or richer
Question 3 · verb
emit long loud cries
Answer: wail
wail in self-pity
Original choices and explanations
- moan
- indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
- shriek
- utter a shrill cry
- whine
- complain whiningly
- wail
- emit long loud cries
Question 4 · adverb
in a moderately quick tempo
Answer: allegretto
play this more allegretto
Original choices and explanations
- allegretto
- in a moderately quick tempo
- accelerando
- with increasing speed
- pianissimo
- a direction in music; to be played very softly
- adagio
- slowly
Question 5 · noun
the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier
Answer: epenthesis
the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word ‘bush’ is epenthesis
Original choices and explanations
- shwa
- a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- epenthesis
- the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier
- allomorph
- a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
- syllabification
- forming or dividing words into syllables
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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