Past Daily Challenge
October 7, 2026
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Question 1 · noun
The process of removing impurities
Answer: refining
Original choices and explanations
- tapering
- The gradual reduction of an amount
- refining
- The process of removing impurities
- remaking
- Something created again in a new form
- defining
- The process of giving something a definite shape
Question 2 · noun
A tree or shrub with large fragrant flowers
Answer: magnolia
Original choices and explanations
- bluebell
- A slender-stemmed perennial with drooping azure flowers
- hedgerow
- a fence made from closely planted shrubs
- magnolia
- A tree or shrub with large fragrant flowers
- sycamore
- A large tree with pale peeling bark
Question 3 · verb
To record an item added to a collection
Answer: accession
Original choices and explanations
- overrun
- Invade or spread through in great numbers
- psychoanalyse
- Treat using psychoanalytic methods
- defibrillate
- Restore a normal heartbeat with an electric shock
- accession
- To record an item added to a collection
Question 4 · adverb
To an exorbitant degree
Answer: extortionately
Original choices and explanations
- extortionately
- To an exorbitant degree
- hellishly
- In an extremely intense or unpleasant way
- insatiably
- with a desire that cannot be satisfied
- preponderantly
- To a much greater extent
Question 5 · adjective
Having a fringe of slender projections
Answer: fimbriate
Original choices and explanations
- chatoyant
- Changing color with the angle or light
- fimbriate
- Having a fringe of slender projections
- granulose
- Covered with tiny grainlike particles
- falciform
- Curved like a sickle
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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