Past Daily Challenge
October 6, 2026
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Question 1 · adverb
Without showing emotion or distress
Answer: stoically
he stoically accepted all suffering
Original choices and explanations
- stoically
- Without showing emotion
- ornately
- In an elaborate decorative manner
- frugally
- In an economical, careful way
- feasibly
- In a practical way
Question 2 · verb
To challenge the truth or validity of something
Answer: contest
Original choices and explanations
- license
- Authorize officially
- contest
- To challenge the truth or validity of something
- counter
- Speak in response to an argument
- sentence
- Officially declare a court punishment
Question 3 · noun
An early type of mandolin
Answer: mandola
Original choices and explanations
- autogiro
- An aircraft lifted by unpowered rotating blades
- defilade
- A protective arrangement shielding troops from fire
- mandola
- An early type of mandolin
- culverin
- A long-barreled cannon used in early modern warfare
Question 4 · adjective
Humbly begging or pleading
Answer: suppliant
a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
Original choices and explanations
- hortatory
- Strongly encouraging action
- accentual
- Relating to vocal stress
- monitory
- Serving to warn
- suppliant
- Humbly begging or pleading
Question 5 · noun
A perennial herb with white flowers
Answer: dittany
Original choices and explanations
- dittany
- A perennial herb with white flowers
- pitanga
- A Brazilian tree that bears spicy red fruit
- hornwort
- An aquatic plant that grows in ponds and slow streams
- 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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