DM168 ‘2021 General Knowledge’ Quiz 

1. ANIMALS
   a). Porcupine
   b). Chicken
   c). Blue whale (larger than any dinosaur)
   d). Hippopotamus
   e). Pigeon
2. GEOGRAPHY – SOUTH AFRICA
   a). Botswana
   b). Limpopo River
   c). Tugela Falls
   d). Cape Agulhus
   e). Marion Island
3. HISTORY – SOUTH AFRICA
   a). God Save The Queen
   b). 1787-1828
   c). General Jan Smuts
   d). Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
   e). Castle of Good Hope
4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
   a). Tin
   b). Coronavirus Disease 2019
   c). Lawyers and politicians
   d). Bitcoin
   e). In the beginning
5. BRAINTEASERS
   a). Vowels
   b). They can all add “rain” to make a new word
   c). Leap (collective nouns of the Big Five on SA currency notes in ascending order)
   d). They have no vowels other than “a” (Havana, Jakarta, Warsaw, Dakar, Ankara)
   e). The letters in each word are in alphabetical order
6. ENTERTAINMENT
   a). Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Bob Marley
   b). Swahili
   c). Clint Eastwood
   d). District 9
   e). My Octopus Teacher
7. OLYMPICS
   a). Athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, swimming
   b). Bangladesh
   c). Andy Murray
   d). Climbing, karate, skateboarding, surfing
   e). Liechtenstein
8. LITERARY WORLD
   a). The Merry Wives Of Windsor
   b). Florence
   c). JK Rowling
   d). George RR Martin (Game Of Thrones)
   e). JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer
9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – SOUTH AFRICA
   a). The Hawks
   b). Jacob Zuma’s wives
   c). Puma
   d). Method cap classique (MCC)
   e). Clicks
10. SPORT – SOUTH AFRICA
    a). Comrades
    b). Duane Vermeulen
    c). Akani Simbine
    d). Lloyd Harris
    e). 200m Breaststroke
11. SPACE
    a). Mercury And Venus
    b). Southern Cross
    c). Earth
    d). Zero
    e). Richard Nixon
12. CHRISTMAS CRACKER JOKES
    a). Their horns don’t work
    b). A rubbish truck
    c). Goes back fo(u)r seconds
    d). Nothing, it’s on the house
    e). Claus-trophobia. DM168

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9 letter word

succursal

8 letter words

sacculus

6 letter words 

caucus

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Ursula

5 letter words 

ascus; cauls; class; crass; luaus; scars; sural; suras; usual

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Assur; Cacus; Claus; Lucas; Lucca; Urals

4 letter words 

arcs; carl; cars; caul; lass; luau; sacs; scar; sura

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9 letter words 

bucketful

6 letter words 

buckle; tubful; tubule

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Lubeck

5 letter words

bluet; cleft; culet; fleck; fluke; flute

4 letter words

belt; blue; bulk; celt; clef; club; clue; cult; felt; flub; flue; fuel; kelt; left; lube; luce; luck; lute

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Luke

DM168 ‘2021 General Knowledge’ Quiz 

1. Raul Castro
2. Ashleigh Barty
3. Tokyo
4. El Salvador
5. Daniil Medvedev
6. Alitalia
7. Chelsea
8. Asteroids (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
9. Lewis Hamilton
10. ‘The Man Who Died Twice’

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9 letter word

diligence

7 letter words

decline; deicing; eliding

6 letter words 

ceding; decile; dicing; dingle; idling; legend

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Edenic; Leiden; Lidice

5 letter words 

deice; deign; dinge; elide; gelid; glede; glide; indie; ledge; lined

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Indic

4 letter words 

cede; cedi; deil; dele; deli; dene; dice; dine; ding; edge; eide; geed; geld; gild; iced; idle; lend; lied; need; nide

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Deng; Eden; Enid; Gide; Lind

DM168 ‘Variant’ Quiz 

1. True
2. True
3. False, As living organisms, viruses are much smaller than bacteria
4. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron
5. This is a variant of interest
6. Britain, USA, Australia, Mauritius, Singapore, Israel, India, France, European Union countries, Canada, Japan, The Phillipines
7. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa
8. Lambda (Peru) and Mu (Columbia)
9. The Greek alphabet
10. “Two letters were skipped —Nu and Xi — because Nu is too easily confounded with ‘new’ and XI was not used because it is a common surname and WHO best practices for naming new diseases (developed in conjunction with FAO and OIE back in 2015) suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups’,” the WHO said in a statement.

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9 letter word

eldercare

8 letter word

declarer

7 letter words

cleared; clearer; declare

6 letter words 

carrel; cereal; cradle; dealer; larder; leader; leered; realer; reeled; reeler

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Calder; Darrel

5 letter words 

alder; clear; creel; decal; elder; laced; lacer

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Adele; Adler; Clare; Earle

4 letter words 

alee; carl; clad; dale; deal; dele; earl; lace; lade; lard; lead; leer; rale; real; reel

DM168 ‘Know Your Williams Sisters’ Quiz 

1. He believed the tough environment would give the girls a fighter’s mentality
2. Venus and Serena have three half-sisters on their mother Oracene Price’s side: Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price.
3. Richard married three times. He had five children from his first marriage to Betty Johnson: Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka. After his second divorce from Venus and Serena’s mother, he married for the third time. The tennis coach’s third wife was Lakeisha Juanita Graham. The pair welcomed a son named Dylan in 2012 and divorced in 2017. Richard also has another son named Chavoita LeSane outside of his marriages.
4. When they were four
5. Venus by 1 year
6. Serena, Venus and their sister Lyndrea Price
7. She was killed in a gang shootout in Compton
8. The Australian Open
9. Serena
10. Venus won seven Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals.
    Serena won 23 Grand slam singles titles, 14 grand slam doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals

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9 letter word

almsgiver

7 letter words

gravels; gremial; mailers; marvels; realism; revisal

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Algiers

6 letter words 

emails; gavels; gimels; glaive; glares; gleams; grails; gravel; grilse; lagers; larges; lavers; ligers; livers; mailer; marvel; mesial; milers; ravels; realms; rivals; sailer; salver; samiel; serial; serval; silage; silver; slaver; sliver; smiler; valise; velars

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Elvira; Gisela; Glaser; Ismael; Israel; Leavis; Melisa; Vergil

5 letter words 

agile; aisle; alive; argil; ariel; arils; earls; email; evils; gales; gavel; gimel; girls; glair; glare; gleam; glias; grail; lager; lairs; lamer; lames; lares; large; laser; laver; laves; levis; liars; liger; limes; liras; liver; lives; livre; mails; males; marls; meals; miler; miles; rails; rales; ravel; realm; reals; regal; rials; riels; riles; rival; salmi; salve; silva; slave; slime; smile; vales; valse; veils; velar; vials; viler; viral

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Alger; Arles; Elgar; Elias; Elisa; Elvia; Elvis; Gaels; Giles; Islam; Melva; Reval; Rigel; Salem; Selim; Selma; Simla; Velma; Vilma

4 letter words 

ails; ales; alms; aril; earl; elms; evil; gale; gals; gels; girl; glam; glia; glim; ilea; isle; lags; lair; lame; lams; lari; lase; lave; lavs; leas; legs; leis; leva; liar; lies; lime; lira; lire; live; mail; male; marl; meal; mile; mils; rail; rale; real; rial; riel; rile; sail; sale; seal; slag; slam; slim; vail; vale; veal; veil; vela; vial; vile

DM168 ‘Climate Change’ Quiz 

1. Former US President Barack Obama.
2. Margaret Thatcher
3. Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Yemen
4. They are all at serious risk of being completely submerged
5. The forecast says heavy rain, so “drookit”
6. They are all nature-based solutions to climate change
7. BLACKPINK
8. NDC, which stands for Nationally Determined Contribution
9. ‘Shall’ We all remember the cries and cheers after the triumphant COP21 agreement in Paris
10. A code red for humanity

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9 letter word

flambeaus

8 letter word

amusable; flambeau

7 letter words

flambes; fumbles

6 letter words 

albums; ambles; balsam; blames; fables; flambe; fumble; suable; umbels; umbles; usable

6 letter words that may be pronouns

Mabuse

5 letter words 

abase; abeam; abuse; album; amble; baels; balas; bales; balms; balsa; basal; beams; beaus; bemas; blame; blase; blues; embus; fable; flubs; lambs; lubes
sable; samba; sebum; umbel

5 letter words that may be pronouns

Baals; Basel; Basle; Belau; Mabel; Mable; Melba; Sumba

4 letter words 

abas; able; alba; albs; baas; bael; bale; balm; base; beam; beau; bema; blue; bumf; bums; flab; flub; labs; lamb; lube; slab; slub

DM168 ‘SA And UK Iron Ladies’ Quiz 

1. B) A Russian journalist
2. 1979 to 1990
3. Germany
4. She stopped free milk for schoolchildren
5. She publicly apologised for her tweets saying there were some positive aspects of colonialism.
6. In October 1983 without talking to Mrs Thatcher, President Reagan invaded Grenada, whose head of state is Queen Elizabeth, in Operation Urgent Fury. This led to a very angry telephone exchange between Reagan and Thatcher that became legend in both the White House and Downing Street
7. Mazibuko and the DA caucus supported the the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Bill and the Employment Equity Amendment Bill tabled by the ANC in parliament
8. The Institute of Race Relations
9. There was a dramatic increase in unemployment, from 1.3 million in 1979 to more than double that figure two years later, reaching more than three million in 1986.
10. The World mayor award

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9 letter word

supervene

8 letter word

revenues

7 letter words

veneers

6 letter words 

ensure; enures; nerves; peeves; pensee; peruse; preens; prunes; purees; reeves; revues; rupees; serene; severe; venues; vesper

5 letter words 

ensue; epees; evens; nevus; nurse; peens; peers; penes; pervs; prese; purse; renes; reuse; runes; serve; seven; sever; sneer; spree; sprue; spurn; super; veeps; veers; verse

4 letter words 

eves; pees; pens; puns; reps; revs; rues; runs; ruse; seen; seep; seer; sene; sere; spue; spun; spur; suer; sure; urns; user

DM168 ‘4th Estate’ Quiz 

1. The earliest known journalistic product was a news sheet circulated in ancient Rome: the Acta Diurna, said to date from before 59 bce. The Acta Diurna recorded important daily events such as public speeches.
2. The first regularly published newspaper appeared in German cities and in Antwerp about 1609.
3. Daily Courant
4. 17th century
5. University of Missouri (Columbia)
6. The second decade of the 21st century
7. The Pulitzer Prize was started in 1917 to celebrate excellence in journalism
8. True
9. Journalism, or the press
10. Yes

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9 letter word

assistant; satanists

8 letter word

satanist

7 letter words

attains

6 letter words 

assist; attain; saints; satins; stains; stasis; stints; taints; titans

5 letter words 

antis; saint; satin; snits; stain; stats; stint; taint; tints; titan

4 letter words 

anta; anti; ants; nits; sati; sits; snit; tain; tana; tans; tass; tats; tins; tint; tits

DM168 ‘Last-Minute Local Elections’ Quiz 

1. B)26 Million
2. 325
3. ARA Africa Restoration Alliance
4. Organic Humanity Movement
5. If you live in a metropolitan area (e.g. Johannesburg), you’ll receive 2 ballots: 1 for a ward councillor and 1 for a party
6. You’ll receive 3 ballots: 1 for a ward councillor for the Local Council; 1 for a party for the Local Council; and 1 for a party for the District Council.
7. The EFF is entitled to 6 seats, the DA to 3 seats and the ANC 1 seat.
8. False Ward candidates may stand as representatives of parties or as independents.
9. No. You can only vote at the voting station where you are registered
10. NO There are no special votes in local government elections

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9 letter word

furnished

7 letter words

finders; friends; hinders; infused; infuser; insured; redfish; refunds; unfired

6 letter words 

diners; diseur; fiends; finder; fished; fisher; friend; furies; hiders; hinder; indues; infers; infuse; insure; inured; inures; nursed; redfin; refund; rinsed; ruined; rushed; sherif; shined; shiner; shrine; snider; sunder; surfed; undies; ursine

5 letter words 

diner; dines; dries; druse; dunes; fends; ferns; feuds; fiend; fined; finer; fines; fired; fires; fresh; fried; fries; frise; fused; heirs; herds; hider; hides; hired; hires; indue; infer; inure; nerds; nuder; nudes; nurse; reins; rends; resin; rides; rinse; risen; runes; serif; serin; shend; sherd; shied; shier; shine; shire; shred; sired; siren; snide; under; unfed; urine

4 letter words 

dens; dies; dine; dire; dues; dune; ends; feds; fend; fens; fern; feud; fine; fire; fuse; heir; hens; herd; hern; hers; hide; hied; hies; hire; hued; hues; ides; nerd; nide; nude; reds; refs; rein; reis; rend; resh; ride; rife; rise; rude; rued; rues; rune; ruse; send; serf; shed; side; sine; sire; sued; suer; sure; used; user

DM168 ‘Child Prodigies’ Quiz 

1. Under The Age of Ten
2. John von Neumann
3. Mexico
4. Stevie Wonder
5. Tiger Woods
6. Nadia Comăneci
7. Max Verstappen
8. Malcom Gladwell
9. Michael Jackson
10. Serena Williams

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9 letter word

hegemonic

7 letter words

echoing; genomic

6 letter words 

chigoe; coming; genome; gnomic; hoeing; homing

5 letter words 

ching; coign; genic; genie; gnome; henge; hinge; neigh

4 letter words 

gene; ghee; gone; hong; mong; nigh; ogee

DM168 ‘SA General Knowledge’Quiz 

1. True. The Vredefort Crater is The Oldest and Largest Verified Crater Created by a Meteor Landing on Earth
2. J. M. Coetzee
3. Cape Agulhas
4. Platinum
5. Riotous Assembly or Indecent Exposure
6. A new heart
7. The Tugela Falls
8. Monster
9. Desmond Tutu
10. The Lemba

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9 letter word

shippable

7 letter words

applies

6 letter words 

alephs; apples; espial; lipase; palish; phials; shlepp

5 letter words 

aleph; aphis; apish; appel; apple; blips; heaps; helps; lapse; leaps; pails; pales; peals; pebas; phase; phial; piles; pipes; plash; pleas; plebs; plies; salep; sepal; sepia; shape; shlep; spahi; spiel; spile

4 letter words 

alps; apes; apps; apse; baps; blip; hasp; heap; help; hips; laps; leap; lips; lisp; pail; pale; palp; pals; paps; pase; pash; peal; peas; peba; peps; phis; pies; pile; pipe; pips; pish; plea; pleb; psia; ship; slap; slip; spae

DM168 Quiz On Education

1. Confucius
2. In the 1820s
3. Horace Mann and James Carter
4. The Supreme Court
5. Jan van Riebeeck
6. To anglicise Cape society
7. To bring to an end the missionary control of black education and to institute a system of mass education
8. The Taliban
9. 60%
10. Yes, it’s true.

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9 letter word

flowingly

7 letter words

flowing; fowling; wolfing; yowling

6 letter words 

inflow; lowing

5 letter words 

flong; flown; folly; golly; gonif; lingo; login; lowly; owing; yogin

4 letter words 

filo; fino; flog; flow; fogy; foil; foin; fowl; glow; golf; gown; info; lilo; lino; lion; logy; loin; long; noil; oily; only; wino; wolf; yogi; yoni; yowl

DM168 ‘Wonders Of The World’ Quiz

1. 70%

2. The Amazon, South America
   Halong Bay, Vietnam
   Iguazú Falls, Argentina and Brazil
   Jeju Island, South Korea
   Komodo, Indonesia
   Puerto Princesa Underground River, Philippines

3. aurora borealis
4. Christ the Redeemer, a colossal statue of Jesus
5. Emperor Shah Jahān (reigned 1628–58)
6. The greater pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt
7. Timbuktu
8. The Great Barrier Reef
9. The elephant
10. Spekboom

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9 letter word

audiphone

8 letter words

dauphine

7 letter words

dauphin; unhoped

6 letter words 

dupion; unipod; unpaid

5 letter words 

adieu; audio; hound; indue; ouphe; pound; upend

4 letter words 

Dune

DM168 ‘Our History & Heritage’ Quiz

1. The Khoisan (Khoi and San)
2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
3. Then deputy president Thabo Mbeki
4. The yellowood
5. Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga and isiNdebele
6. The Balobedu
7. Freedom Park
8. The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town-building started in 1666
9. Helen Suzman of the Progressive Party
10. Ingrid Jonker

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9 letter word

tribalism

8 letter words

mistrial

7 letter words

mistral; similar; simitar

6 letter words 

alibis; ambits; brails; limits; mitral; mtil; smriti; tibial; tibias; timbal; trails; trials; tribal

6 letter words that can be proper nouns

Brasil; Ismail; Istria; Libras; Marist; Tamils

5 letter words 

airts; alibi; ambit; amirs; arils; astir; bails; baits; basil; birls; brail; brims; brits; iambi; iambs; lairs; liars; libra; limbs; limit; liras; litas; mails; milia; milts; mitis; rails; rials; salmi; simar; simba; sitar; stair; stria; tails; tamis ;tarsi; tibia; trail; trial; trims

5 letter words that can be proper nouns

Arbil; Blair; Iblis; Irbil; Islam; Libia; Maris; Marti; Misti; Mitra; Simla; Tamil; Tarim

4 letter words 

abri; ails; aims; airs; airt; alit; amir; aril; bail; bait; bias; birl; bits; brim; bris; brit; iamb; ibis; ilia; iris; lair; lari; lati; liar; limb; lira; list; mail; mils; milt; mist; rail; rial; ribs rims sail; sari; sati; silt; sima; slim; slit; smit; stir; tail; tali; trim

4 letter words that can be proper nouns

Albi; Amis; Asir; Asti; Atli; Bali; Bari; Iasi; Irma; Isar; Liam; Lias; Lima; Lisa; Mali; Mari; Mira; Rabi; Rita; Siam; Sita; Tais; Tami

DM168 ‘Know Your Local Government Elections’ Quiz

1. FALSE In Municipal Elections, you vote for a political party and a ward councillor (a mixed system of PR and a ward constituency system) to get seats at the municipal level
2. NO, during municipal elections you can only vote in the voting district in which you are registered. However, you can vote during national elections
3. 1. ANC 53.9%
   2. DA 26.9%
   3. IFP 4.25%
4. B 58%
5. Mayor of Ekhuruleni Mzwandile Masina
6. The DA led with 57 seats with the ANC receiving 50 seats.
7. Msimanga resigned as mayor to become the Democratic Alliance’s Gauteng Premier candidate for the 2019 elections
8. The One South Africa Movement
9. Action SA
10. Peter de Villiers

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9 letter word

conquered

7 letter words

crunode; encoder; encored

6 letter words 

corned; decern; encode; endure; enured; recode; redone; reduce

5 letter words 

ceder; cered; coder; coned; cored; credo; creed; crude; cured; decor; deuce; donee; douce; drone; dunce; educe; endue; erode; nuder; ronde; round; under; uredo

4 letter words 

cede; code; coed; cord; cred; crud; cued; curd; deco; deer; dene; doer; done; dour; dree; duce; dune; duro; need; nerd; node; nude; quod; rede; redo; reed; rend; rode; rude; rued; undo

DM168 ‘September 11’ Quiz

1. 4: two Boeing 757s and two Boeing 767s)
2. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
3. A 1 hour and 20 minutes
4. B) They were loaded with the greatest amount of explosive jet fuel.
5. C) 2751
6. Weapons of mass destruction
7. The US Capitol
8. C) They took a vote
9. Box – cutting knives
10. George W Bush

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9 letter word

dismissal

7 letter words

misdial; mislaid; missals

6 letter words 

dismal; miladi; missal; salmis

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Iliads; Islams; Ismail

5 letter words 

dials; mails; milia; sails; salmi; silds; sisal; slams; slims

4 letter words 

ails; alms; dial; ilia; lads; laid; lams; lass; lids; mail; mild; mils; sail; sild; slam; slid; slim

DM168 ‘Spring/s General Knowledge Test’ Quiz

1. Wednesday 22 September
2. The Namaqualand Flower Route
3. Spring tides occur twice each lunar month all year long, without regard to the season.
4. The South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union
5. Alexander Pope
6. The Sun appears at the zenith (directly overhead) on the first day of spring and the first day of autumn.
7. Spring
8. Great Sphinx
9. Spring onions
10. Anthophilia

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9 letter word

diastolic

7 letter words

colitis; cotidal; dacoits; italics; solicit; stoical

6 letter words 

coatis; coital; costal; dacoit; dicast; dicots; italic; octads; scotia; silica; social; ticals

5 letter words 

acids; ascot; asdic; ciaos; cilia; clits; clods; clots; coals; coast; coati; coats; codas; coils; colas; colds; colts; costa; dicot; dicta; disco; iliac; iodic; licit; lotic; octad; octal; scald; scold; stoic; tacos; tical

4 letter words 

acid; acts; asci; cadi; cads; cast; cats; ciao; cist; clad; clit; clod; clos; clot; coal; coat; coda; cods; coil; cola; cold; coli; cols; colt; cost; cots; disc; docs; laic; loci; otic; scad; scat; taco; talc; tics

DM168 ‘Inter-Generational POP’ Quiz

1. The Born-Frees those born after the end of apartheid form 40% of the South African population.
2. The Greatest Generation
3. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
4. ABBA
5. Spike Lee
6. 3
7. FRANCE
8. The “sandwich” is attributed to John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), a British statesman and gambler, who is said to be the inventor of this type of food so that he would not have to leave his gaming table to take supper.
9. The Black Mamba
10. The Enola Gay

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9 letter word

fuzziness

7 letter words

infuses

6 letter words 

fizzes; fuzzes; infuse

5 letter words 

fines; fuses

4 letter words 

fens; fess; fine; fins; fizz; fuse; fuss; fuzz

DM168 ‘Bring on The Sunshine’ Quiz

1. Sunflower
2. Hair
3. Nik Kershaw
4. A Raisin in the Sun
5. Eastern Cape
6. Neil Finn from Crowded House
7. Shaka kaSenzangakhona
8. About 1 million
9. Mamelodi Sundowns
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

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9 letter word

youngster

8 letter word

sturgeon; youngest

7 letter words

eryngos; groynes; gurneys; surgeon; tongues; yogurts; younger

6 letter words 

eryngo; gentry; goners; grouse; grouts; grouty; groyne; grunts; gunter; gurney; guyots; gyrose; rogues; rouges; rugose; strong; strung; tongue; urgent; yogurt

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Geryon; Negros

5 letter words 

ergot; genro; gents; genus; goers; goner; gores; gorse; gouty; greys; grots; grout; grunt; guest; gusto; gusty; gutsy; guyot; gyres; gyron; gyros; gyrus; negro; negus; ogres; rogue; rouge; rungs; segno; stogy; stung; surge; surgy; tongs; trugs; urges; young

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Goren; Gorey; Grote; Norge; Roget; Synge

4 letter words 

egos; ergo; ergs; gens; gent; genu; gest; gets; gnus; goer; goes; goey; gone; gore; gory; gout; goys; grey; grot; guns; gust; guts; guys; gyre; gyro; nogs; ogre; orgy; rugs; rung; snog; snug; song; sung; togs; tong; trug; tugs; urge

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Gers; Gros; Grus; Roeg; Yong

DM168 ‘Cabinet ReShuffle’ Quiz

1. The Ministry of Human Settlements and Ministry of Water and Sanitation.
2. From Human Settlements, water & sanitation to Tourism
3. Jackson Mthembu
4. 28
5. Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
6. Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise
7. False. Kodwa is Deputy Minister in the Presidency: State Security
8. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana
9. Digital Vibes
10. His former deputy Dr Joe Paahla

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9 letter word

suspicion

8 letter word

opinicus

7 letter words

cousins; spinous

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Poussin; Socinus

6 letter words 

cousin

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pincus

5 letter words 

coups; cusps; incus; nisus; pious; scups; sinus; soups

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ipsus; Punic

4 letter words 

coup; cups; cusp; cuss; nous; onus; opus; puns; puss; scup; soup; sous; spun; suns; sups; unis; upon

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Pius

DM168 ‘Women’s Day’ Quiz

1. The capital of the Orange Free State of South Africa, Bloemfontein
2. Women were taken away from their families if authorities felt they had broken laws that forced them to carry passes
3. No response
4. Charlotte Maxeke
5. Native Laws Amendment Act
6. Federation of South African Women (FSAW)
7. The Women’s Charter
8. Rahima Moosa, Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph and Sophia Williams
9. J.G. Strijdom
10. ‘Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo,”, translated, “you strike the women you strike a rock.”

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9 letter word

gratifier

8 letter word

irrigate; ratifier

7 letter words

frigate; grifter

6 letter words 

aigret; airier; artier; fairer; gaiter; triage

5 letter words 

afire; afrit; feria; firer; friar; frier; grief; grift; irate; refit; rifer; tiger; trier

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aegir; Artie; Terai; Terri; Tigre

4 letter words 

airt; fair; fiat; fire; frig; frit; gait; gift; girt; gite; grit; ragi; rif; rift; rite; tier; tire; trig

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Frei; Riga; Rigi; Rita; Taif; Teri

DM168 ‘Know Your Olympics’ Quiz

1. Sizwe Ndlovu
   Matthew Brittain
   John Smith
   James Thompson
2. Men’s 200m butterfly
3. 1904
4. Wayde van Niekerk
5. Womens’ 800 m
6. Usain Bolt
7. skateboarding, baseball, surfing, karate and climbing
8. Nadia Comaneci
9. Simone Biles
10. Ben Johnson

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9 letter word

rosaceous

8 letter word

carouses

7 letter words

arouses; carouse; caseous; courses; sarcous; sources; sucrose

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Croesus

6 letter words 

across; arouse; cerous; coarse; course; crosse; crouse; rouses; scores; scours; serosa; serous; source

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Caruso; Crusoe; Oscars; Roscoe; Roseau

5 letter words 

arose; ceros; cores; corse; cross; euros; oases; ocrea; oecus; orcas; roose; roses; roues; rouse; saros; score; scour; soars; sores; sorus; sours; souse

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Coors; Orcus; Oscar; Russo; Sousa

4 letter words 

aero; cero; coos; core; coss; euro; oars; orca; orcs; ores; oses; ours; rocs; roes; rose; roue; soar; sora; sore; sour; sous

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Cora; Eros; Oreo; Ossa; Ouse; Roca; Rosa; Ross; Sosa

DM168 ‘South Africa General Knowledge’ Quiz

1. 58.8 million
2. 38% according to https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/employed-persons
3. 63.3%
4. Tuberculosis
5. About 28,8% of the population is aged younger than 15 years and approximately 9,0% is 60 years or older
6. 1. (25,3%) of individuals spoke isiZulu at home
   2. 14,8% of individuals spoke isiXhosa
   3. 12,2% spoke Afrikaans.
7. Christianity is the most common with 43 423 717 believers
   The second most common belief is no religious affiliation/belief – 5 964 892 non affiliated or non -believers
8. 57.50%,
9. DA leader John Steenhuisen
10. EFF leader Julius Malema

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9 letter word

lightness

8 letter word

lightens; shingles; sleights

7 letter words

english; lengths; lighten; nighest; shingle; sleighs; sleight; slights

7 letter words that may be pronouns

Hengist

6 letter words 

eights; heists; hinges; length; lights; neighs; nights; shiest; shines; sights; sleigh; slight; thesis; things

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Shensi

5 letter words 

eight; heist; hilts; hinge; hints; light; lithe; neigh; night; shies; shine; shins; shits; sighs; sight; thegn; thine; thing; thins

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ghent; Hines; Leigh; Leith; Singh

4 letter words 

hens; hent; hest; hies; hilt; hins; hint; hiss; hits; nigh; shes; shin; shit; sigh; sinh; then; thin; this

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Gish; Hess; Seth

DM168 ‘Know Your Jacob Zuma’ Quiz

1. Judge Sisi Khampepe
2. Ukhozi FM DJ Ngizwe Mchunu
3. Dali Mpofu
4. Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
5. Duduzile and Duduzane Zuma
6. She was Jacob Zuma’s third wife Kate Mantsho‚ who committed suicide in December 2000.
7. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala
8. Jacob Zuma

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9 letter word

selfishly

7 letter words

fleshly; selfish

6 letter words 

elfish; filses; fishes; fleshy; shells; shelly

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Sisley

5 letter words 

fells; felly; files; flesh; flies; hells; isles; lisle; lyses; sells; shelf; shell; shies; yells

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Ellis

4 letter words 

ells; fell; fess; file; fley; hell; hies; isle; leis; less; leys; lief; lies; life; lyse; self; sell; shes; yell

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Elis; Hess; Leif; Lely; Lyle

DM168 ‘WIMBLEDON’ Quiz

1. Goran Ivanisevic
2. Venus Williams (at 129 mph)
3. Angelique Kerber
4. The Venus Rosewater Dish
5. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
6. Maria Sharapova
7. Four times..Serena won three out of four
8. Novak Djokovic
9. 8 times
10. Martina Navratilova

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9 letter word

alienisms

8 letter words

alienism; salinise

8 letter words that may be proper nouns

Islamise; Milesian; Silesian

7 letter words

aimless; inseams; liaises; malines; menials; missile; salines; samiels; samisen; seminal; silesia; simians; similes

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Melissa; Messina

6 letter words 

aisles; aliens; amines; emails; inseam; lassie; liaise; limens; manses; mensal; mesial; missal; niseis; saline; salmis; samiel; sanies; sansei; seisin; sileni; simian; simile; slimes; smiles; snails

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Amiens; Anselm; Islams; Ismael; Ismail; Lassen; Maisie; Melisa

5 letter words 

aisle; amiss; anils; anise; isles; issei; lames; lanes; leans; lenis; liens; limes; limns; lines; mails; mains; males; manes; manse; meals; means; mesas; miens; miles; minas; mines; minis; nails; names; nisei; sails; sales; salmi; sames; sasin; seals; seams; seism; semis; sines; sisal; slain; slams; slime; slims; smile; snail

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Aisne; Elias; Elisa; Islam; Mensa; Niles; Nimes; Salem; Selim; Selma; Siena; Silas; Simla; Sinai

4 letter words 

ails; aims; ales; alms; anis; elms; isle; isms; lams; lase; lass; leas; leis; lens; less; lies; mans; mass; mesa; mess; mils; mise; miss; ness; nisi; sail; sain; sale; same; sane; sans; seal; seam; seas; semi; sens; sima; sims; sine; sins; slam; slim

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Amis; Elis; Elsa; Iasi; Ines; Isis; Lesa; Lias; Lisa; Nils; Sean; Siam; Sian

DM168 ‘Know Your EFF’ Quiz

1. Sputnik V and Sinovac
2. Vuyani Pambo
3. Malema earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and African Languages, from UNISA.
4. Political Studies
5. Sgameka Projects
6. 44 seats
7. Andile Mngxitama
8. CLICKS
9. ADRIANO MAZZOTTI
10. Ratanang Family Trust

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9 letter word

cracksmen

7 letter words

cancers; cankers; smacker

6 letter words 

cancer; caners; canker; casern; cracks; crakes; cranes; cranks; creaks; creams; meccas; sacker; scarce; screak; scream

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Carmen; Neckar

5 letter words 

acmes; acres; cakes; caner; canes; cares; carks; carse; crack; crake; crams; crane; crank; creak;cream; maces; macks; marcs; mecca; nacre; narcs; necks
races; racks; rance; scare; scram; smack; snack; sneck

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Carne; Ceram; Cesar; Emacs; Merca; Merck

4 letter words 

aces; acme; acne; acre; arcs; cake; came; cams; cane; cans; care; cark; cars; case; cask; ceca; cram; mace; mack; macs; marc; narc; neck; race; rack; reck; sack; scam; scan; scar

DM168 ‘Sports Trivia’ Quiz

1. Eldrick
2. Turkey
3. The longest tennis match lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes and was contested over three days between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut at 2010 Wimbledon.
4. Cristiano Ronaldo – Galaxy Cosmos Redshift 7 (CR7)
5. Dan Carter
6. Natalie Du Toit
7. The Ivory Coast national football team played a match in the rebel capital of Bouaké in 2007 and brought both the government and rebel armies together peacefully for the first time.
8. Matt Damon
9. Football which has 4 billion fans
10. Ping-pong or table tennis

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9 letter word

buckwheat

7 letter words

hackbut

6 letter words 

bucket

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Hecuba

5 letter words 

acute; beaut; butch; chute

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ceuta; Kutch

4 letter words 

abut; beau; buck; chub; cube; cuke; cute; haku; tabu; tuba; tube; tuck

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aube; Baku; Batu; Bute; Cebu; Cuba; Huck; Utah

DM168 ‘JUNE 16’ Quiz

1. Hendrik Verwoerd
2. Hector Pieterson
3. Sam Nzima
4. The Soweto Students’ Representative Council’s (SSRC) Action Committee.
5. John Vorster
6. The compulsory use of the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction
7. Punt Janson
8. Naledi High in Naledi and Morris Isaacson in Mofolo.
9. Teboho “Tsietsi” MacDonald Mashinini
10. President Nelson Mandela

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9 letter word

occlusion

8 letter words

colonics; councils

7 letter words

cloison; colonic; council; uncoils

7 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Niccolo; Solonic

6 letter words 

clonus; colons; conics; consul; coulis; cousin; uncoil; uncool

5 letter words 

cisco; cocos; coils; coins; colic; colon; conic; cools; coons; icons; incus; locos; locus; oculi; scion; sonic; sulci

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Clios; Colin; Cusco; Lucio

4 letter words 

cion; clos; coco; coil; coin; coli; cols; cons; cool; coon; coos; icon; loci; loco

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Clio

DM168 ‘Know Your NPA’ Quiz

1. The Directorate of Special Operations or THE SCORPIONS
2. BULELANI NGCUKA
3. Sexual Offences and Community Affairs (SOCA) unit
4. Willie Hofmeyer
5. The Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU)
6. Gerrie Nel
7. Advocate Vusi Pikoli
8. In a televised news conference, Mpshe, said that the charges were dropped because the top NPA investigator, Leonard McCarthy, had manipulated the timing of the case against Zuma in late 2007 to coincide with the party elections of that year.
9. Shaun Abrahams
10. Shamila Batohi

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9 letter word

bollixing

7 letter words 

illing; billion; boiling

6 letter words 

billon; boxing; globin; goblin; oiling

5 letter words 

bingo; bling; blini; inbox; lingo; login

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ilion; Ixion

4 letter words 

bong; lino; lion; loin; long; noil

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Bini; Gino; Olin

DM168 ‘INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM’ Quiz

1. WATERGATE
2. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
3. Deep Throat
4. THE INFORMATION SCANDAL
5. Mervyn Rees and Chris Day
6. Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Piet Rampedi and Stephan Hofstatter
7. Daily Maverick, amaBhungane and News24
8. Henry Nxumalo
9. Ida B Wells
10. Vrye Weekblad

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9 letter word

chittered

8 letter words

tetchier

7 letter words 

chitter; heretic; retched; techier

6 letter words 

cheder; chider; cither; dither; either; etched; etcher; herdic; hitter; itched; techie; tether; thetic; thrice; tithed; tither

5 letter words 

cheer; chert; chide; ditch; ether; ethic; heder; hider; hired; retch; teeth; their; there; third; three; titch; tithe

4 letter words 

chid; chit; echt; etch; heed; heir; herd; here; hide; hied; hire; itch; rich; teth; thee

DM168 ‘ WINTER FAMILY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE POP’ Quiz

1. House Stark
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. Falcon and the Winter Soldier
4. John Steinbeck
5. “Baby Jake” Matlala,
6. Strelitzia
7. Sutherland in the Northern Cape
8. Tiffendell
9. Eugene Marais
10. 1) Antihistamines which block histamines, which cause tissues to become swollen and can itch. 2) Decongestants which reduce swelling in blood vessels and tissues, which help to get rid of the stuffy feeling when you have a cold.

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9 letter word

homeowner

7 letter words 

hormone; moorhen; nowhere; whereon

6 letter words 

erenow; hereon; moreen

5 letter words 

heron; homer; honer; honor; horme; moron; mower: nohow; owner; romeo; whore; women; wooer

4 letter words 

enow; hero; hoer; home; homo; hone; horn; meow; mono; moon; moor; more; morn; mown; norm; omen; omer; room; whom; wore; worm; worn

DM168 ‘Know your F1 Grand Prix’ Quiz

1. Nino Farina
2. Jody Scheckter
3. Max Verstappen (2016 Spanish Grand Prix, aged 18)
4. McClaren
5. 7
6. Lewis Hamilton 98
7. Max Verstappen’s Red Bull crew at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix in 1.82 seconds
8. Niki Lauda
9. Mercedes (2016)
10. Lella Lombardi (1975 Spanish Grand Prix)

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9 letter word

polluting

7 letter words 

polling; pouting; pulling; tolling

6 letter words 

loping; luting; opting; outing; pignut; plugin; poling; puling; toping

5 letter words 

gipon; glint; guilt; ingot; input; lingo; login; lungi; lupin; oping; pilot; pinto; piton; poilu; point; tigon; tulip; unlit; until

4 letter words 

gill; gilt; into; lilo; lilt; lino; lint; lion; loin; loti; noil; pill; ping; pint; pion; puli; till; ting; toil; topi; unit

DM168 ‘THERE IS MORE TO THE ANC THAN ACE & JZ’ Quiz

1. South African Native National Congress
2. The aim was to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms which were systematically eroded when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, giving Afrikaners self-determination.
3. Sol Plaatje
4. Natives Land Act, Act No 27 of 1913
5. Sefako Makgatho
6. Albertina Sisulu
7. Anton Lembede
8. Nelson Mandela
9. Barbara Hogan
10. Bathabile Dlamini

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9 letter word

trembling

8 letter words

trebling

7 letter words 

belting; gilbert; nimbler; timbrel

6 letter words 

begirt; berlin; binger; bingle; gerbil; giblet; limber; nimble; timber; timbre

5 letter words 

begin; being; bilge; binge; biter; blent; brent; brine; bring; giber; liber; tribe

4 letter words 

bel; bent; berg; berm;bier; bile; bine; birl; bite; brei; brie; brig; brim; brit; gibe; glib; limb

DM168 ‘May Day Workers’ Quiz

1. New Zealand
2. Bheki Ntshalintshali
3. Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!
4. NUM National Union of Mineworkers
5. Kenya
6. Saint Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary and surrogate father of Jesus, was made the patron saint of May Day of 1 May by the Catholic Church in 1955 due to his perceived work ethic.
7. It is compulsory for designated employers i.e. employers who employee 50 or more employees, employers who employ less than 50 employees but whose annual turnover exceeds or equals the amounts in schedule 4 of the EEA, or an employer who has been declared a designated employer in terms of a collective agreement.
8. Karl Marx
9. Kazakhstan
10. Let them eat cake

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9 letter word

artificer

8 letter words

artifice; craftier; criteria; ratifier; terrific

7 letter words 

cirrate; erratic

7 letter words that may be proper nouns

Cartier

6 letter words 

airier; artier; fairer; ferric; fiacre; iatric; racier

6 letter words that may be proper nouns

Carrie; Tracie; Tricia

5 letter words 

afire; afrit; ceria; cirri; crier; farci; fecit; feria; firer; friar; frier; icier; irate; recti; refit; ricer; rifer; trice; trier

5 letter words that may be proper nouns

Artie; Erica; Terai; Terri; Traci

4 letter words 

airt; cire; cite; fair; fiat; fire; frit; rice; rife; rift; rite; tier; tire

4 letter words that may be proper nouns

Eric; Frei; Rita; Taif; Teri

DM168 ‘General Knowledge’ Quiz

1. Thuli Madonsela and Deon Meyer
2. The White Spiritual Boy Trust
3. Charlotte Maxeke hospital
4. Luxor
5. Julius Malema
6. Johnson and Johnson vaccine
7. The Jagger library
8. Nicky Oppenheimer
9. The bill for the commission stood at R800-million at the last count.
10. Molefi Ntseki

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9 letter word

obscuring

8 letter words

Rubicons

7 letter words 

bicorns; bousing; curbing; sorbing

6 letter words 

bicorn; boring; bourns; brings; broncs; bruins; buncos; burins; busing; coburg; cubing; robing; robins; suborn

5 letter words 

bingo; bison; bogus; bongs; bonus; boric; bosun; bourg; bourn; brigs; bring; bronc; bruin; bunco; bungs; burgs; burin; burns; cribs; curbs; grubs; robin; scrub

4 letter words 

bins; bios; bogs; bong; born; bour; brig; brio; bris; bugs; bung; buns; burg; burn; burs; cobs; crib; cubs; curb; gobs; grub; guib; nibs; nobs; nubs; obis; orbs; ribs; robs; rubs; snob; snub; sorb

DM168 ‘KNOW YOUR PROTEAS FAMILY FUN’ Quiz

1. Hansie Cronje
2. Jacques Kallis
3. Makhaya Ntini
4. Dean Elgar
5. 45 in the first test of New Zealand’s tour of South Africa in 2013
6. Heinrich Klaasen
7. Lance Klusener
8. Gibbs made some derogatory racist comments against the opposition players which were caught on the mic.
9. Allan Donald
10. Lungile Ngidi

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9 letter word

autotypes

8 letter words

autotype

7 letter words 

autopsy; outstay; payouts; teapots; upstate

6 letter words 

aptest; astute; outset; payout; spotty; statue; teapot; toasty

5 letter words 

autos; estop; outta; paste; pasty; pates; patsy; patty; peaty; pesto; pesty; petty; poets; potty; pouts; pouty; putto; putts; putty; saute; septa; setup; spate; spout; sputa; state; stoat; stope; stoup; stout; stupa; stupe; suety; tapes; taste; tasty; taupe; teats; testa; testy; toast; toeas; topes; totes; touts; types; typos; upset; yeast

4 letter words 

atop; auto; east; eats; etas; eyot; oast; oats; opts; oust; outs; past; pate; pats; peat; pest; pets; poet; post; pots; pout; puts; putt; sate; seat; sept; sett; spat; spot; stay; step; stet; stoa; stop; stye; suet; tape; taps; tats; taus; taut; teas; teat; test; toea; toes; tope; tops; tost; tote; tots; tout; toys; tuts; type; typo; yest

DM168 ‘OUR BURNING PLANET’ Quiz

1. The African forest elephant and the African savanna elephant.
2. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife nature conservation agency.
3. CoP26
4. Demersal trawling.
5. 34%
6. Swim for Rivers.
7. Barbara Creecy.
8. The white rhino
9. Lake St Lucia
10. Mineral Sands Resources (MSR)

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9 letter word

parlously

8 letter words

payrolls

7 letter words 

parlous; payroll; plurals; pylorus

6 letter words 

orally; pallor; plural; pulsar; royals; sapour; sourly

5 letter words 

lours; loury; orals; parol; polar; pours; prays; prosy; purls; pursy; rally; raspy; rolls; royal; saury; slurp; solar; spray; supra; sural; surly; syrup; yours

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Paros; Raoul; Surya; Urals

4 letter words 

aryl; lour; oars; oral; ours; pars; pour; prau; pray; proa; pros; purl; raps; rasp; rays; roll; ropy; rosy; roup; ryas; slur; soar; sora; sour; spar; spry; spur; sura; your

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Arlo; Asur; Lars; Lora; Lyra; Orly; Parl; Prus; Raul; Rosa; Ural; Ursa

DM168 ‘Easter Family’ Quiz

1. Toffee
2. A pocket watch
3. It represents Jesus Christ’s sacrifice in wilderness before dying on the cross
4. Russell Brand
5. The Holy Week
6. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion.
7. Mary Magdelene
8. Catholics believe that the pope is the successor to Saint Peter whom Jesus appointed as the first head of his church.
9. The Life of Brian
10. According to history.com the egg, an ancient symbol of new life, has been associated with pagan festivals celebrating spring. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection.

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9 letter word

reengaged

8 letter words

reengage; renegade

7 letter words 

angered; derange; engaged; engager; enraged; grandee; greened; grenade; reneged

6 letter words 

agreed; dagger; danger; degage; degree; earned; endear; engage; enrage; gander; ganged; ganger; garden; geared; gender; genera; grange; nagged; nagger; neared; ragged; ranged; reggae; renege

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Greene

5 letter words 

agger; agree; anger; denar; eager; eagre; eared; edger; egged; egger; gaged; genre; grade; greed; green; raged; ranee; range; redan

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Andre; Arden; Daren; Deane; Deena; Deere; Edgar; Nader; Reade; Renee

4 letter words 

aged; agee; dare; dean; dear; deer; dene; dree; dreg; earn; edge; egad; erne; gage; gean; gear; geed; gene; gree; near; need; nerd; rage; read; rede; reed; rend

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aden; Arne; Dane; Dena; Deng; Eden; Edna; Eger; Erna; Gena; Gera; Gere; Greg; Rena; Rene

DM168 ‘Get to know Kanye West’ Quiz

1. College DropOut
2. Dondas House  (https://pitchfork.com/news/dondas-house-kanye-founded-nonprofit-in-upheaval-after-kim-kardashian-and-rhymefest-fight/)
3. VMA 2009
4. Adidas and GAP
5. It seems even those with a taste for contemporary art couldn’t open their wallets very far–even in the name of the Save the Children charity–for the monstrosity that is the Jay-Z/Kanye West ‘Otis’ Maybach. It sold for just $60,000 at the New York Contemporary Art Evening auction held by Phillips de Pury & Co.
6. 4, North, Saint , Psalm and Chicago West
7. 22 (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/kanye-west-wins-gospel-grammy-jesus-is-king-1234930224/)
8. Jesus is king
9. https://people.com/tv/kim-kardashian-felt-kanye-west-wasnt-willing-to-compromise-in-their-marriage-source/
10. Pusha T who is also an artist signed Good music and partnership with Def Jam

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9 letter word

hamadryad

6 letter words 

armada; dharma

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Adhara; Ramada

5 letter words 

damar; drama; dryad; hardy; hydra

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Ahmad; Hadar

4 letter words 

dada; dram; dray; dyad; hard; yard

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Adam; Adar; Arad

DM168 ‘HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW YOUR CAF PRESIDENT’ Quiz

1. Patrice Motsepe, Bridgette Radebe and Tshepo Motsepe

2. Bowman Gilfillan

3. African Rainbow Minerals

4. 2008

5. The mining magnate was the first African to sign Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, promising to give at least half his fortune to charity.
   

6. Motsepe told Donald Trump that Africa loves him and loves America.

7. She trained as a medical doctor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and completed her masters in public health at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2012, she completed a Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Programme at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

8. Bridgette Radebe, who found Mmakau Mining, a successful mining firm with assets in platinum, gold, uranium, coal, chrome, exploration and mining interests.

9. Mamelodi Sundowns

10. Ahmad Ahmad, from the East African nation of Madagascar.

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9 letter word

brabbling

8 letter words

babbling; blabbing

7 letter words 

barbing; blaring

6 letter words 

baling; baring; rabbin

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Gibran

5 letter words 

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Arbil; Arlin; Blair; Bragi; Brian; Rabin

4 letter words 

abri; anil; aril; bail; bani; bibb; birl; brig; gain; girl; glia; glib; grin; lain; lair; lari; liar; lira; nail; ragi; rail; rain; rani; rial; ring

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Abib; Agni; Albi; Babi; Bali; Bari; Bibl; Gail; Gila; Gina; Iran; Lina; Nair; Rabi; Riga

DM168 ‘COVID 19 VACCINE AND TREATMENT’ Quiz

1. When a lot of people in a community are vaccinated, the pathogen has a hard time circulating because most of the people it encounters are immune. So the more that others are vaccinated, the less likely people who are unable to be protected by vaccines are at risk of even being exposed to the harmful pathogens. (Source https://www.gov.za/covid-19/vaccine/vaccine?gclid=Cj0KCQiAs5eCBhCBARIsAEhk4r4yiBtDJPzMgPN72kSWX8OSKtsgm511wPnwTrj2mramv7jF3fKutdEaArFfEALw_wcB#)

2. AstraZeneca-Oxford
   (source https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/south-africa-suspends-use-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-after-it-fails-clearly-stop)

3. The Serum Institute
   (Source https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-receive-first-consignment-covid-19-vaccine)

4. Janssen – the vaccine-making subsidiary of the pharma giant Johnson & Johnson
   (SOURCE https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/everything-we-know-about-johnson-johnsons-single-dose-covid-19-vaccine?gclid=Cj0KCQiAs5eCBhCBARIsAEhk4r6oBm9We0-6Knmm5Gkk3AWxUMbJvpKdRTei2PPVzocMuo_36lNuhfcaAmk4EALw_wcB)

5. GAVI
   (Source https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/about)

6. No. COVID-19 mRNA vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way.
   Messenger RNA vaccines—also called mRNA vaccines—are the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States. mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response. The mRNA from a COVID-19 vaccine never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where our DNA is kept.
   (SOURCE https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html)

7. Yes. People who want to get pregnant in the future may receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
   (SOURCE https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html)

8. No A study in Columbia of 398 people with mild Covid-19 symptoms found that ivermectin offered no statistically significant benefit over placebo. The results were published in the prestigious Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)
   (SOURCE https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389?guestAccessKey=e98010ef-e747-40ad-b865-a18c9c0450d9&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030421)

9. Moderna and Pfizer/ BioNtech
   (SOURCE https://theconversation.com/4-things-about-mrna-covid-vaccines-researchers-still-want-to-find-out-154160)
   

10. 4
    (Source
    https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork)

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We’ve never had a scientist for our Spot the Difference, but seeing as she is the powerhouse behind getting our health workers the Johnson and Johnson vaccine as part of a research trial, spot ten respectful differences between these two pictures of President & CEO of the South African Medical Research Council Professor Glenda Gray.

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9 letter word

standpipe

8 letter words

nappiest

7 letter words 

appends; nappies; painted; panties; pedants; pentads; sandpit; sapient; snapped; snipped; snippet; stipend

6 letter words 

adepts; append; instep; napped; nipped; pained; paints; pandit; panted; pantie; papist; pasted; pedant; pentad; pepsin; pietas; pineta; ptisan; sapped; sipped; sippet; sniped; spinet; spited; tapped; tipped

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Petain

5 letter words 

5 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Paine; Papen; Pepin; Pepsi; Pisan; Spain

4 letter words 

aped; apes; apse; dips; nape; naps; neap; nipa; nips; pads; paid; pain; pane; pans; pant; paps; pase; past; pate; pats; pean; peas; peat; pein; pens; pent; peps; pest; pets; pied; pies; piet; pine; pins; pint; pipe; pips; pita; pits; psia; psid; sept; snap; snip; spae; span; spat; sped; spin; spit; step; tape; taps; tips

4 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Apis; Depp; Epis; iPad; Pena; Pisa

DM168 ‘know your crown’ Quiz

1. Royal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

2. Wallis Simpson

3. Queen Elizabeth II’s father, King George VI

4. Cape Town

5. 1952

6. Princess Diana

7. Prince Harry

8. Princess Margaret, the Queen’s sister

9. 54

10. Westminster Abb

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9 letter word

heptagons; pathogens

8 letter words

heptagon; pathogen; phaetons; stanhope 

7 letter words 

gestapo; hostage; onstage; phaeton; phonate; postage;  potages; teashop 

7 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Stephan 

6 letter words 

agents; atones; hapten; hasten; honest; pantos; pathos; pontes; potage; potash; spathe; tangos; thanes; thongs

6 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Ashton; Athens; Heston; Pashto; Sontag; Stheno

5 letter word

agent; angst; antes; atone; estop; ethos; etnas; gates; gents; ghats; ghost; gnats; goats; goths; haste; hates; heats; hosta; nates; neath; notes; oaten; oaths; onset; panto; pants; paste; paten; pates; paths; pesto; phots; poets; septa; shoat; shote; snath; spate; spent; stage; stane; stang; staph; steno; stone; stope; tango; tangs; tapes; thane; thegn; thong; those; toeas; togae; togas; tones; tonga; tongs; topes

5 letter words that may be proper nouns:

Aneto; Aston; Athos; Eaton; Ethan; Ghent; Gotha; Oates; Pasto; Paton; Seton; Tahoe

4 letter words

ante; ants; atop; east; eats; etas; etna; gate; gats; gent; gest; gets; ghat; gnat; goat; goth; hast; hate; hats; heat; hent; hest; host; hots; neat; nest; nets; note; oast; oath; oats; opts; pant; past; pate; path; pats; peat; pent; pest; pets; phat; poet; post; pots; sate; seat; sent; sept; shat; shot; snot; spat; spot; stag; step; stoa; stop; tags; tang; tanh; tans; tape; taps; teas; tens; than; then; toea; toes; toga; togs; tone; tong; tons; tope; tops; tosh

4 letter word that may be proper nouns:

Aten; Aton; Esth; Eton; Gath; Nate; Neth; Ptah; Seth; Stan; Taos; Thea

DM168 ‘SA Sport’ Quiz

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9 letter word

jaywalker

6 letter words

lawyer; walker

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns):

Kerala; Warley

5 letter words

alary; areal; aware; early; jerky; kraal; laker; layer; relay; weary; wreak

5 letter words that may be proper nouns: 

Jewry; Karaj; Karaj; Leary; Waler

4 letter words

aery; ajar; alar; arak; area; aryl; awry; earl; eyra; jarl; jerk; lark; lyre; raja; rake; rale; real; rely; ware; wary; wear; yare; year

4 letter words (that may be proper nouns):

Aral; Ayer; Kara; Karl; Lara; Lear; Lyra; Ryle

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9 letter words

cretinoid; direction

8 letter words

centroid; doctrine; indicter; indictor; indirect

7 letter words

centroid; citrine; cordite; critine; crinoid; ctenoid; diction; dineric; identic; incited; inciter; neritic; noticed; oneiric

7 letter word (may be proper nouns)

Citroen

6 letter words

centroid; cinder; citrin; citron; codein; coiner; corned; cornet; credit; cretin; divier; direct; docent; erotic; incite; indict; irenic; ironic; nitric; noetic; notice; orcein; recoin

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Corine; Enrico; Nordic; Ticino

5 letter words

cento; cider; cited; coder; coned; conte; cored; credo; cried; crine; crone; decor; dicer; dicot; edict; icier; iodic; ionic; nicer; ontic; recon; recti; recto; riced; tonic; trice

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Creon; Doric; Iceni; Indic

4 letter words

cedi; cent; cero; cine; cion; cire; cite; code; coed; coin; coir; cone; cord; core; corn; cote; cred; deco; dice; iced; icon; nice; once; otic; rice

 4 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Ceto; Eric; Rico

Daily Maverick’s Inter-Generational ‘Could you qualify to go back to High School’ Quiz?

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9 letter word

heartsick

8 letter word

chariest

7 letter words

achiest; aitches; archest; cashier; chaster; cithers; hackers; hastier; raciest; rackets; restack; richest; rickets; shakier; stacker; stearic; sticker; tackers; tackier; thicker; tickers

6 letter words

achier; arches; ashier; cahier; carets; caries; cartes; casket; caster; caters; chaise; chaser; chaste; cheats; cither; crakes; crates; creaks; earths; eschar; ethics; haceks; hacker; hackie; haters; hearts; hikers; itches; kaiser; kasher; racket; reacts; recast; riches; sachet; sacker; satire; scathe; screak; search; shaker; shriek; shrike; sicker; skater; sketch; steric; strake; streak; striae; strike; taches; tacker; takers; theirs; thrice; ticker; traces; trikes

5 letter words

aches; acres; arise; asker; aster; cakes; cares; caret; carse; carte; caste; cater; ceria; certs; cesta; chare; chase; cheat; chert; chest; cites; crake; crate; creak; crest; cries; earth; ethic; hacek; hakes; hares; haste; hater; hates; hears; heart; heats; heirs; heist; hikerl hikes; hires; irate; ketch; kites; races; raise; rakes; rates; rathe; reach; react; recta; recti; resat; resit; retch; rheas; rices; rites; saker; scare; serai; shake; share; shear; sheik; shier; shire; skate; skier; skite; stake; stare; steak; tache; taker; takes; tares; teach; teaks; tears; techs; theca; their; tiers; tikes; tires; trace; treks; trice; tries; trike

4 letter words

aces; ache; acre; ares; arse; cake; care; case; cate; cire; cite; each; ears; east; eats; echt; eras; erst; etas; etch; hake; hare; hate; hear; heat; heck; heir; hers; hest; hies; hike; hire; ices; keas; kier; kite; race; rake; rase; rate; reck; reis; resh; rest; rets; rhea; rice; rise; rite; sake; sate; sear; seat; sech; sect; sera; sike; sire; site; tace; take; tare; teak; tear; teas; tier; ties; tike; tire; trek; tres

Daily Maverick’s ‘Check how well you know Jacob Zuma Quiz

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9 letter word

acquittal

7 letter words

aquatic; cattail; tactual

6 letter words

acquit; actual

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Altaic; Attica; Attila

5 letter words

atilt; attic; quilt; tacit; tical

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Altai; Talca; Utica

4 letter words

alit; cult; lati; quit; tact; tail; tala; talc; tali; taut; tilt

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9 letter words

publisher; republish

8 letter word

plushier

7 letter words

blueish; blusher; bushier; plusher; publish; pushier

7 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Belushi; Bushire

6 letter words

bluish; bruise; buries; bushel; busier; hubris; lisper; lusher; perils; perish; pileus; pliers; pusher; relish; reship; rubies; superb; uprise

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Elbrus; Epirus; Perlis

5 letter words

biers; birls; blips; blues; blurs; blush; brush; buhls; burls; burps; burse; heirs;  helps; herbs; hires; hurls; ileus; lubes; lures; peris; piers; piles; plebs; plies; plush; pries; prise; pubes; pubis; pules; pulse; purls; purse; rebus; riels; riles; rubes; rules; shier; shire; shlep; shrub; sirup; slurp; spiel; spier; spile; spire; sprue; super; usher sprit; stoop; strip; strop; tipis; topic; topis; trips; troop

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Bries; Eblis; Lepus; Presb; Prius; Sheri; Siple

4 letter words

bise; bris; burs; bush; hers; hies; hips; hubs; hues; isle; leis; lies; lips; lisp; lues; lush; phis; pies; pish; plus; pubs; puls; push; reis; reps; resh; ribs; rips; rise; rubs; rues; ruse; rush; ship; shul; sire; slip; slub; slue; slur; spue; spur; suer; sure; user

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9 letter word

isotropic

8 letter words

isotopic; porticos

7 letter words

portico; tropics

7 letter word (may be proper nouns)

Scorpio

6 letter words

octopi; optics; picots; prosit; script; scroop; spirit; topics; tripos; troops; tropic

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Crispi; Pictor; Poirot; Scipio

5 letter words

coops; corps; crisp; crops; optic; picot; ports; posit; scoop; scrip; sopor; spirt; spoor; sport; sprit; stoop; strip; strop; tipis; topic; topis; trips; troop

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Cipro; Copts; Porto; Spiro

4 letter words

coop; cops; crop; oops; opts; pics; piso; pits; poco; poor; poos; port; post; pots; pros; rips; scop; spic; spit; spot; stop; tipi;tips; topi; tops; trip

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9 letter word

sdyspeptic

7 letter words

sdepicts; peptics

6 letter words

edicts; septic; sipped; sippet; spiced; spited

5 letter words

cedis; cites; deist; dices; diets; ditsy; edits; epics; pesty; pipes; piste; sited; spice; spicy; spied; spite; stipe; tides; tipsy; types; yetis

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Pepsi; Pepys

4 letter words

cist; cyst; dies; dips; disc; dits; dyes; espy; ices; ides; pecs; peps; pest; pets; pics; pies; pips; pits; psid; sect; sept; side; site; spec; sped; spic; spit; step; stye; syce; teds; tics; ties; tips; yeps; yest; yids; yips

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9 letter word

ventilate

7 letter words

entitle; lineate; naivete; veinlet; ventail

7 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Valenti; Venetia

6 letter words

alevin; alvine; entail; lateen; latent; latten; leaven; levant; native; nettle; talent; telnet; valine; venial

6 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Aileen; Elaine; Levine; Nettie; Venite

5 letter words

alien; aline; anele; anile; anvil; eaten; enate; event; inlet; levin; liven; naevi; naive; navel; nival; taint; tenet; tinea; titan; venae; venal

5 letter words (may be proper nouns)

Alvin; Elena; Elvin; Evian; Ilene; Intel; Latin; Leven; Nevil; Nivea; Taine; Vilna

4 letter words

anil; ante; anti; elan; etna; even; lain; lane; lean; lent; lien; line; lint; nail; nave; neat; nevi; nite; tain; teen; tent; tine; tint; vain; vane; vein; vena; vent; vina; vine

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9 letter word

bondstone

9 letter word

bonnets, boosted, tendons

9 letter word

bonnet, booted, nodose, sonnet, stoned, tendon, tennos, tenons, tonnes

9 letter word

Benson, Benton, Bootes, Boston, Denton, Donets, Dotson, Ostend

9 letter word

9 letter word

Boone, Edson, Odets, Seton

9 letter word

bode, bods, bond, bone, boon, boos, boot, bots, dobs, does, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, ebon, eons, neon, nobs, node,nods,noes,none, noon,nose, note, oboe, odes, ones, onto, snob, snot, sone, soon, soot, stob, toed, toes, tone, tons

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9 letter word

Minimises

8 letter word

Minimise

7 letter word

Mimesis

6 letter words

niseis; seisin

5 letter words

imine; issei; miens; mimes; mines; nisei; seism; semis; sines

4 letter words

mems; mess; mien; mime; mine; mise; ness; semi; sens; sine

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9 letter word

desperate

8 letter words

departee; pederast; pestered; predates; repeated; reseated

7 letter words

dearest; deepest; departs; estrade; petards; petered; predate; repeats; sedater; steeped; steeper; steered; tapered

6 letter words

adepts; aretes; daters; depart; desert; deters; eaters; parted; pasted; pedate; peseta; pester; petard; peters; prated; prates; preset; repast; repeat; reseat; rested; seated; sedate; stared; tapers; teared; teased; teaser; tepees; trades; trapes; tread

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Easter;Teresa

5 letter words

adept; apter; arete; aster; darts; dater; dates; deter; eater; ester; parts; paste; pates; peart; peter; prate; prats; rated; rates; reest; resat; reset; sated; septa; setae; spate; sprat; stare; stead; steed; steep; steer; strap; stree; strep; taped; taper; tapes; tared; tares; tarps; tears; tease; tepee; terse; trade; traps; tread; treed; trees

5 letter word (that may be proper nouns)

Petra

4 letter words

arts; dart; date; drat;  east; eats; erst; etas; part; past; pate; pats; peat; pert; pest; pets; prat; rapt; rate; rats; rest; rete; rets; sate; seat; sept; spat; star; step; tads; taed; tape; taps; tare; tarp; tars; tear; teas; teds; teed; tees; trad; trap; tree; tres; tsar

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9 letter word

effluents

8 letter word

effluent

7 letter word

unsteel

6 letter words

Elutes; fleets; fluent; flutes; funest; nestle; unfelt

5 letter words

Elute; felts; fetes; fetus; fleet; flute; lefts; lutes; sente; sleet; steel; stuff; teens; tense; tunes; unset

4 letter words

Efts; feet; felt; fest;fete; leet; left; lent; lest; lets; lust; lute; nest; nets; nuts; sent; slut; stun; suet; teen; tees; tens; tuff; tune; tuns

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9 letter word

comradely

8 letter word

claymore

7 letter word

caloyer

6 letter words

cloyed; comedy; comely; creamy; dearly; dreamy; melody

5 letter words

clary; coaly; coley; coyer; cymae; cymar; deary; decay; decoy; decry; delay; early; lardy; layer; loamy; madly; marly; mayor; mealy; mercy; moray; ready; redly; relay; royal; yodel; yodle

4 letter words

acyl; aery; amyl; army; aryl; clay; cloy; coly; cyma; demy; dory; dray; dyer; eyra; lacy; lady; lyre; mayo; moly; odyl; oldy; oyer; racy; rely; yard; yare; year; yeld; ylem; yore

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9 letter word

solemnity

8 letter words

mylonite

7 letter words

etymons; loments; moisten; moistly; motiles; motleys; sentimo; stonily

7 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Yeltsin

6 letter words

enlist; enmity; entoil; etymon; inlets; inmost; lenity; listen; loment; melton; moiety; molest; molten; monist; montes; mostly; motels; motile; motley; silent; somite; stolen; stoney; stymie; telson; timely; tinsel; tonsil

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Liston; Milton; Solent; Tomlin

5 letter words

emits; inlet; inset; islet; istle; items; lento; linty; melts; metis; milts; mints; minty; misty; mites; moist; monte; motel; motes; nites; notes; omits; onset; silty; smelt; smite; smolt; smote; stein; steno; stile; stole; stone; stony; style; styli; tiles; times; tines; toile; toils; tomes; tones; yetis

5 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Eliot; Elton; Elyot; Intel; Lents; Minot; Monet; Monty; Seton; Stine; Timon; Tyson

4 letter words

emit; eyot; into; item; lent; lest; lets; lint; list; lite; lost; loti; lots; melt; milt; mint; mist; mite; most; mote; mots; nest; nets; nite; nits; note; omit; sent; silt; site; slit; slot; smit; snit; snot; stem; stye; tens; ties; tile; time; tine; tins; tiny; toes; toil; tole; tome; toms; tone; tons; tony; toys; yest; yeti

4 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Eton; Inst; Leto; Moet; Mont; Myst; Otis; Toni; Tyne

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9 letter word

unanimous

8 letter word

numinous

7 letter words

amnions; mansion; onanism

6 letter words

amino; amnio; anion; anons; mains; mason; minas; minus; moans; monas; muons; nouns; union; unman

5 letter words

anis; anon; anus; inns; ions; main; mans; maun; mina; moan; muon; nans; naos; noma; noun; nous; nuns; onus; sain; sunn; unis

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9 letter word

whimsical

8 letter word

chiliasm

7 letter word (that may be proper nouns)

islamic

7 letter word

claims

6 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Islamic

5 letter words

calms; chasm; claim; clams; halms; mails; milch; milia; salmi; shawm; swami;  whams; whims

5 letter words (that may be proper nouns)

Amish; Ishim; Islam; Micah; Simla; Wilma

4 letter words

aims; alms; calm; cams; cham; clam; cwms; halm; hams; hims; lams; macs; mail; mash; maws; mica; mics; mils; scam; sham; shim; sima; slam; slim; swam; swim; wham; whim 

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9 letter word

acidifies

6 letter words

facies; deific; decafs

5 letter words

disci; defis; decaf; cased; daces; cedis; dices; aside; acies; acids; caids; ideas; cadis; cadie; faces, faced; facie; fades; cafes

4 letter words

aide; cise; cide; caid; cads; aces; acid; aced; cade; side; deaf; safe; said; ides; ices; feds; face; iced; fade; fads

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9 letter word

frustrate

7 letter words

astuter; stature; truster; tufters; turrets

6 letter words

astute; frusta; statue; surfer; tauter; truest; tufter; turret; utters

5 letter words

fetus; feuar; saute; strut; surer, surra; sutra; truer; trues; trust; tufts; turfs; utter

4 letter words

furs; fuse; rues; ruse; rust; ruts; suer; suet; sura; sure; surf; taus; taut; true; tufa; tuft; turf; tuts; urea; user 

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9 letter word

nostalgic

8 letter words

agnostic; antilogs; castling; coasting; coatings; locating

7 letter words

actions; agonist; antilog; casting; coating; costing; gnostic; lasting; salting; slating; stoical

6 letter words

acting; actins; action; antics; atonic; cantos; coital; costal; gaslit; giants; glints; gloats; ingots; instal; latino; sating; talons; tangos; tonics; tonsil

5 letter words

altos; angst; antic; canto; cants; clots; coast; coats; colts; gaits; giant; gilts; glint; gloat; gnats; goats; ingot, iotas; octal; saint; satin; scant; slant; stain; sting; stoic; tacos; tails; talon; tango; togas; toils; tonal; tonga; tongs; tonic

4 letter words

acts; alit; alto; anti; ants; cant; cast; cats; cist; clot; coat; colt; cost; cots; gait; gats, gilt; gist; gnat; goat; into; iota; last; lati; lats; lint; list; lost; lota; lots; nits; oats, salt; scat; silt; slat; slit; slot; snit; snot; stag; taco; tags; tail; tali; tang; tans, tics; ting; tins; toga; togs; toil; tons

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