Past Daily Challenge
September 29, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
A slight indication
Answer: clue
Original choices and explanations
- clue
- A slight indication
- candidate
- A politician running for public office
- check
- An act that restrains power or action or limits excess
- chef
- A professional cook
Question 2 · verb
Intimidate or overwhelm
Answer: buffalo
Sam cannot buffalo Sue
Original choices and explanations
- copyright
- To secure legal ownership of a creative work
- alternate
- to do something in turns
- buffalo
- Intimidate or overwhelm
- extract
- To remove, often with effort or force
Question 3 · verb
Renounce a legal right or title
Answer: disclaim
Original choices and explanations
- annotate
- Add explanatory or critical comments to a text
- admonish
- Warn or scold someone about their behavior
- foretell
- Predict or announce in advance
- disclaim
- Renounce a legal right or title
Question 4 · adjective
Uncannily gloomy or obscure
Answer: darkling
a darkling glance
Original choices and explanations
- darkling
- Uncannily gloomy or obscure
- scabrous
- Rough to the touch and covered with scales
- glaucous
- Having a bluish powdery coating
- enceinte
- In an advanced stage of pregnancy
Question 5 · noun
An eastern Australian tree valued for fiber and wood
Answer: kurrajong
Original choices and explanations
- charlock
- A weedy Eurasian plant found in grain fields
- kurrajong
- An eastern Australian tree valued for fiber and wood
- toadflax
- A yellow-and-orange flowering plant
- 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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