Credo Reference Friday Brainteaser – 7/3/09
Meanings
Test your knowledge of the English language by trying to answer these questions about the meanings of words.
1. Which part of an egg is known as the “albumen”?
2. What is halitosis?
3. What is a plagiarist?
4. What is the meaning of “matricide”?
5. What is agoraphobia?
6. An isotherm is a line on a map connecting places that have the same…what?
7. What is a xenophobe?
8. What is an encomium?
9. What is a chanterelle?
10. What is the simoom?
Find the answers here.
