Past Daily Challenge
September 8, 2026
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Question 1 · adverb
without any others being included or involved
Answer: exclusively
he works for Mr. Smith exclusively
Original choices and explanations
- exclusively
- without any others being included or involved
- mostly
- usually; as a rule
- strictly
- in a rigorous manner
- primarily
- of primary import
Question 2 · adverb
as can be shown by argument
Answer: arguably
she is arguably the best
Original choices and explanations
- unquestionably
- without question
- arguably
- as can be shown by argument
- undeniably
- to an undeniable degree or in an undeniable manner
- undoubtedly
- without doubt; certainly
Question 3 · noun
disloyalty to the government or to established authority
Answer: disaffection
the widespread disaffection of the troops
Original choices and explanations
- antipathy
- a feeling of intense dislike
- unease
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- disaffection
- disloyalty to the government or to established authority
- discontentment
- a longing for something better than the present situation
Question 4 · verb
treat or speak of with contempt
Answer: deride
He deride his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics
Original choices and explanations
- deride
- treat or speak of with contempt
- lambaste
- beat with a cane
- decry
- express strong disapproval of
- denigrate
- cause to seem less serious; play down
Question 5 · noun
a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.
Answer: clitic
Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle ‘-wa’ to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes.
Original choices and explanations
- inchoative
- aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb
- clitic
- a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted.
- suffixation
- formation of a word by means of a suffix
- pronominal
- a phrase that functions as a pronoun
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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