Past Daily Challenge
September 13, 2026
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Question 1 · verb
Destroy or ruin completely
Answer: devastate
Original choices and explanations
- coalesce
- To join together into a single whole
- devastate
- Destroy or ruin completely
- modulate
- Adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of something
- downsize
- Reduce a company's workforce or overall scale
Question 2 · adverb
In a respectable manner
Answer: reputably
Original choices and explanations
- prodigally
- in a wasteful way
- servilely
- In an excessively obedient manner
- reputably
- In a respectable manner
- fulsomely
- In an excessively flattering way
Question 3 · verb
Make a dent or impression in
Answer: dinge
dinge a soft hat
Original choices and explanations
- blench
- Turn pale as if from fear
- extirpate
- Destroy completely
- inebriate
- Make drunk with alcohol
- dinge
- Make a dent or impression in
Question 4 · adjective
Occurring alongside or as a consequence of something else
Answer: concomitant
Original choices and explanations
- concomitant
- Occurring alongside or as a consequence of something else
- inceptive
- At an initial stage
- adulterant
- Making something impure by adding material
- coalescent
- Growing or joining together
Question 5 · noun
A ring reinforcing a hole for a cord
Answer: cringle
Original choices and explanations
- corselet
- Body armor covering the trunk
- cringle
- A ring reinforcing a hole for a cord
- defilade
- A protective arrangement shielding troops from fire
- autogyro
- An aircraft lifted by unpowered rotating blades
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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