Past Daily Challenge
September 21, 2026
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Question 1 · adjective
Many and varied
Answer: manifold
manifold reasons
Original choices and explanations
- indigent
- poor enough to need help from others
- manifold
- Many and varied
- numerable
- able to be counted
- sextuple
- Having six units or parts
Question 2 · adverb
With great joy or triumph
Answer: exultantly
Original choices and explanations
- farcically
- In a ridiculously comic way
- fatuously
- In a smug and foolish way
- exultantly
- With great joy or triumph
- lusciously
- In a richly pleasing way to the taste
Question 3 · verb
To make a shrill wailing sound
Answer: skirl
Original choices and explanations
- wigwag
- Signal by waving a flag or light in code
- indite
- Write a literary work
- adjure
- To ask for something earnestly
- skirl
- To make a shrill wailing sound
Question 4 · noun
A yellow-flowered herb with spikelike blooms
Answer: agrimony
Original choices and explanations
- agrimony
- A yellow-flowered herb with spikelike blooms
- scabiosa
- a garden plant with pincushion-like flowers
- harebell
- A slender-stemmed northern perennial with delicate blue cup-shaped flowers
- tomentum
- A fine hairlike covering on a plant
Question 5 · adjective
having many bends or curves
Answer: flexuous
the flexuous bed of the stream
Original choices and explanations
- plangent
- Loud and resounding
- flexuous
- having many bends or curves
- cauline
- Growing on a plant stem
- nacreous
- Resembling mother-of-pearl
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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