Past Daily Challenge
September 11, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
The mental capacity for communication through speech
Answer: language
language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals
Original choices and explanations
- accident
- An event that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- garbage
- A container in which waste can be discarded
- language
- The mental capacity for communication through speech
- passion
- The trait of feeling emotions with great intensity
Question 2 · adjective
Having parts related in an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent way
Answer: coherent
a coherent argument
Original choices and explanations
- decisive
- Determining an outcome or capable of doing so
- volatile
- Able to evaporate readily at ordinary temperatures and pressures
- marginal
- Of doubtful or barely acceptable quality
- coherent
- Having parts related in an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent way
Question 3 · verb
To provoke or stir up an action or event
Answer: instigate
Original choices and explanations
- instigate
- To provoke or stir up an action or event
- bethink
- To consider or ponder something carefully
- laminate
- Cover with a thin sheet of material other than fabric
- equalise
- Make two or more things the same in amount, status, or form
Question 4 · adverb
With hands on hips and elbows extending outward
Answer: akimbo
she stood there akimbo
Original choices and explanations
- ravenously
- In the manner of someone who is extremely hungry
- incontrovertibly
- In a manner that is obvious and provable
- akimbo
- With hands on hips and elbows extending outward
- circumstantially
- With regard to the surrounding conditions
Question 5 · noun
Any dilapidated, uncomfortable wheeled vehicle
Answer: boneshaker
that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker
Original choices and explanations
- boneshaker
- Any dilapidated, uncomfortable wheeled vehicle
- otherworldliness
- Concern with spiritual matters
- whaleboat
- A long, narrow vessel designed to turn quickly and handle rough seas
- plication
- The act of arranging something into parallel folds
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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