Past Daily Challenge
September 28, 2026
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Question 1 · verb
Win a victory against someone or something
Answer: overcome
You must overcome all difficulties
Original choices and explanations
- overcome
- Win a victory against someone or something
- progress
- To develop in a positive direction
- compound
- To put or add things together
- establish
- Set up or lay the groundwork for something
Question 2 · adjective
Belonging to an earlier period
Answer: sometime
Original choices and explanations
- imminent
- About to happen very soon
- sometime
- Belonging to an earlier period
- cyclical
- Recurring in regular cycles
- longtime
- Established or continuing for many years
Question 3 · noun
Generosity in giving gifts or money
Answer: largesse
Original choices and explanations
- lodestar
- Something that serves as a guide or model
- sonority
- the quality of having a rich resonant sound
- largesse
- Generosity in giving gifts or money
- zealotry
- Intolerant and excessive devotion to a cause
Question 4 · adverb
With notes played by plucking strings
Answer: pizzicato
Original choices and explanations
- dingdong
- heartily or earnestly
- extempore
- Without prior preparation
- askance
- With suspicion or disapproval
- pizzicato
- With notes played by plucking strings
Question 5 · noun
The tendency of a gas to expand or escape
Answer: fugacity
Original choices and explanations
- fugacity
- The tendency of a gas to expand or escape
- quiddity
- The essential nature of a thing
- pabulum
- Dull or unchallenging mental material
- appanage
- A customary privilege attached to a position
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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