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LOOKALIKE WORDS ROUND 1
This round was devised as a table round to be given to teams or competitors at the start of an event and left with them -
obviously after deleting the correct answers shown here immediately after each question - to answer at their leisure.
Here is a series of definitions followed by a series of not too dissimilar words. Your job is to match them up. All the words are used and each is used once only.
1. A small brush-like group of hairs upon the tarsus of bees and spiders.
(b) Scopula
2. Of or pertaining to scurvy; afflicted by scurvy.
(h) Scorbutic
3. Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands especially of the neck.
(k) Scrofula
4. A genus of monopetalous plants such as figwort, foxglove and snapdragon.
(j) Scrophularia
5. The shoulder blade.
(c) Scapula
6. Navicular.
(i) Scaphoid
7. A plant extract used in preventing travel sickness, as a sedative or as a truth serum.
(g) Scopolamine
8. Abnormal tuning of a stringed instrument to produce special effects.
(d) Scordatura
9. A knife with a circular blade used to scoop out wood when carving or engraving.
(a) Scorp or Scorper
10. A character from the commedia dell'arte depicted in music by William Walton.
(e) Scapino
11. An Italian liquid dessert containing (according to one recipe) wine, vodka, lemon liqueur and ice cream.
(f) Scropino
THE SOLUTIONS (NOT IN QUESTION ORDER)
a. Scorp or Scorper
b. Scopula (not to be confused with (c) below)
c. Scapula (not to be confused with (b) above)
d. Scordatura
e. Scapino
f. Scropino
g. Scopolamine (also known as hyoscine)
h. Scorbutic
i. Scaphoid (clue and answer words both 'mean shaped like a boat')
j. Scrophularia
k. Scrofula
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