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Ask for help > Would you guess these words for me, please?
Would you guess these words for me, please?
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elderberrywine
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Would you guess these words for me, please?
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Just trying to find out whether the definitions are clear enough or need to be changed ...
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A person you know, but not very well
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Someone who is competing with you and who you hope to defeat
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A sum of money you are given regularly for a particular purpose
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To make something seem larger or better or worse than it really is
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To treat someone unfairly because of their race, sex or religion
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To give money or a gift to someone in order to corrupt
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Extremely dirty
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To repeat what someone has said or written
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Honest and showing what you really feel or believe
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An amount of money given to good students by an organization to pay
for their college education
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10 May 2016
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cunliffe
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An acquaintance A rival Payment, a wage To exaggerate discriminate Bribery Filthy Reiterate, re-tell, recount Genuine Bursary, grant |
10 May 2016
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georginasantanna
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1. acquaintance 3. allowance 4. to exaggerate 5. to discriminate 8. to echo 9. a grant Not sure if echo is correct though! |
10 May 2016
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elderberrywine
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Thanks for being so helpful. Your answers show me the weak points of my idea. "To repeat what someone has said" is a good example. I meant it to be a definition of "to quote", but of course all your ideas are just as correct. Now I know I have to define "to quote" in a more precise way. For example by adding "from a book or other source". The last word was meant to be "scholarship", I �ll have to improve that definition, too. Thanks for letting me run it by you. |
10 May 2016
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redcamarocruiser
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I guessed scholorship right away, but maybe this could help "scholorship - an amount of money given to excellent or needy students to pay for their college education" |
10 May 2016
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SVieira
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Hi, Elderberrywine (and all the other folks, obviously)! I seem to have come here a bit late, but I couldn �t help trying to find your words (I really enjoy these challenges you have been bringing us), and my ideas were: 1. An acquaintance 2. A rival 3. An allowance 4. To overstate something 5. To discriminate against 6. To bribe 7. Filthy 8. ??? (Here I had no idea)
9. Sincere 10. A scholarship It seems that in some of them (e.g. - acquaintance) we al agree on the same word, but for others (such as "exaggerate" / "overstate", for instance) we have different suggestions...
I hope this may help, and I also do hope you continue challenging us like this!
Thank you for such a good fun, Sandra |
10 May 2016
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leaponover
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I would say 2 is "an opponent". A rival is more someone that you have battled several times. |
10 May 2016
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FrauSue
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"Bursary" would also work for number 10. I agree that "opponent" is a good answer for number 2. |
11 May 2016
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Jayho
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No 2 Competitor, arch rival
No 4 overemphasize
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11 May 2016
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