Past Daily Challenge
September 19, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
The field concerned with designing and using robots
Answer: robotics
Original choices and explanations
- carmaker
- A company that manufactures automobiles
- theology
- the systematic study of religion
- geometry
- The study of shapes, lines, and space
- robotics
- The field concerned with designing and using robots
Question 2 · verb
Spread over or through something
Answer: suffuse
Original choices and explanations
- suffuse
- Spread over or through something
- tousle
- To make hair untidy
- permute
- To change the order of
- congest
- To become or make obstructed
Question 3 · adjective
Stonelike in hardness
Answer: petrous
Original choices and explanations
- carious
- Affected by tooth decay
- petrous
- Stonelike in hardness
- aneroid
- Operating without liquid
- capitate
- Abruptly enlarged and rounded at the tip
Question 4 · noun
Study of the origins and family lines of gods
Answer: theogony
Original choices and explanations
- epicycle
- A circle that rolls around another circle
- oenology
- The art and science of making wine
- theogony
- Study of the origins and family lines of gods
- theodicy
- Theological defense of divine goodness despite evil
Question 5 · noun
a garden plant with pincushion-like flowers
Answer: scabiosa
Original choices and explanations
- charlock
- A weedy Eurasian plant found in grain fields
- toadflax
- A yellow-and-orange flowering plant
- kurrajong
- An eastern Australian tree valued for fiber and wood
- scabiosa
- a garden plant with pincushion-like flowers
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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