Past Daily Challenge
September 25, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
The quality of being resolute
Answer: firmness
Original choices and explanations
- sourpuss
- A person who habitually looks sullen
- firmness
- The quality of being resolute
- nosiness
- Offensive curiosity about others' affairs
- slyness
- Cleverness used for deception
Question 2 · adjective
Having two faces or fronts
Answer: bifacial
the Roman Janus is bifacial
Original choices and explanations
- aspheric
- Slightly different from a perfect sphere
- nebular
- Cloudlike in appearance
- bifacial
- Having two faces or fronts
- acicular
- Long narrow and pointed
Question 3 · verb
Make a weak chirping sound
Answer: twirp
Original choices and explanations
- reprehend
- Rebuke or reprimand
- smatter
- To speak with shallow knowledge
- syncopate
- omit a sound or letter from a word
- twirp
- Make a weak chirping sound
Question 4 · adjective
Rough to the touch and covered with scales
Answer: scabrous
Original choices and explanations
- scabrous
- Rough to the touch and covered with scales
- pellucid
- Clear enough to see through easily
- enceinte
- In an advanced stage of pregnancy
- glaucous
- Having a bluish powdery coating
Question 5 · noun
A large snake mackerel with rings around its eyes
Answer: escolar
Original choices and explanations
- vaquita
- A small endangered porpoise of the Gulf of California
- escolar
- A large snake mackerel with rings around its eyes
- pochard
- A reddish-headed diving duck
- clumber
- A thickset spaniel with long silky hair
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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