Past Daily Challenge
September 9, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
A disturbance that disrupts public peace
Answer: disorder
Original choices and explanations
- muscle
- Physical strength
- disorder
- A disturbance that disrupts public peace
- stranger
- A person who does not belong in the surroundings where they are found
- religion
- Strong belief in supernatural powers that control human destiny
Question 2 · noun
Cleverness and originality in devising or creating something
Answer: ingenuity
a plot of great ingenuity
Original choices and explanations
- ingenuity
- Cleverness and originality in devising or creating something
- shaft
- The hollow spine of a feather
- certainty
- Something known to be inevitable or beyond doubt
- ammunition
- Projectiles intended to be fired from a gun
Question 4 · verb
To make off with belongings owned by others
Answer: filch
They filch the goods
Original choices and explanations
- comport
- To behave well or properly
- striate
- To mark with narrow parallel lines or grooves
- compartmentalize
- To divide into isolated sections or categories
- filch
- To make off with belongings owned by others
Question 5 · noun
An ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base, sloping sides, and a flat roof
Answer: mastaba
the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba
Original choices and explanations
- helpmeet
- A supportive partner
- loganberry
- A large red variety of dewberry
- agglomerate
- A collection of objects laid on top of one another
- mastaba
- An ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base, sloping sides, and a flat roof
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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