Past Daily Challenge
September 24, 2026
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Question 1 · verb
Fly people or supplies into or out of an otherwise unreachable area
Answer: airlift
Original choices and explanations
- airlift
- Fly people or supplies into or out of an otherwise unreachable area
- emigrate
- To leave one's country to live in another
- ricochet
- To bounce away after hitting a surface
- displace
- Force something away from its original position
Question 2 · verb
Set a mechanism in motion
Answer: actuate
actuate the circuits
Original choices and explanations
- obviate
- To prevent something undesirable from happening
- actuate
- Set a mechanism in motion
- strafe
- attack from a low-flying plane with gunfire
- surveil
- to watch someone closely
Question 3 · noun
A machine that selects, combines, and matches decks of punched cards
Answer: collator
Original choices and explanations
- psilocin
- A hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom
- basophil
- A white blood cell containing granules readily colored by basic stains
- collator
- A machine that selects, combines, and matches decks of punched cards
- hawfinch
- A common large Eurasian member of Fringillidae
Question 4 · noun
A shaggy gray dog breed with a curled tail
Answer: keeshond
Original choices and explanations
- garganey
- A small Eurasian teal duck
- ammonoid
- an extinct mollusk with a coiled chambered shell
- komondor
- A large shaggy white Hungarian guard dog
- keeshond
- A shaggy gray dog breed with a curled tail
Question 5 · noun
A legendary universal solvent sought by alchemists
Answer: alkahest
Original choices and explanations
- alkahest
- A legendary universal solvent sought by alchemists
- bdellium
- An aromatic resin similar to myrrh
- moquette
- A thick velvety fabric for carpets and upholstery
- alluvion
- Sediment deposited by flowing water
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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