A call to take part in a contest or competition, especially a duel.
What is challenge?
100
Expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by giving information to an enemy.
What is betray?
100
Having no legal or binding force; invalid.
What is null?
100
A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity
between the two items, without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
100
A letter used to represent one or more numbers.
What is a variable?
200
(Of an object) easily broken or damaged.
What is fragile?
200
A disagreement, argument, or debate.
What is dispute?
200
A subdivision of a company of soldiers, usually forming a tactical unit that is commanded by a lieutenant and divided into several sections.
What is a platoon?
200
A series of related events selected by the author to present and bring about the resolution of a conflict.
What is plot?
200
Three social classes (castes) in France. Includes the clergy, nobility, and everyone else.
What is the three estates?
300
Have a specified beginning.
What is originate?
300
Maintain (something) in its original or existing state.
What is preserve?
300
The practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research (used only by people who are opposed to such work).
What is vivisect (vivisection)?
300
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several
words in a phrase.
What is alliteration?
300
A fraction that compares two quantities measured in different units.
What is rate?
400
Suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently.
What is endure?
400
Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
What is consent?
400
Come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events.
What is intervene?
400
Words that sound like what they are.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The long, stringy network of cells which make of the bodies of fungi.
What is hyphae?
500
Remember (something); call to mind.
What is recollect?
500
Consisting of many different and connected parts.
What is complex?
500
The tendency to derive gratification from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.
What is sadism?
500
A type of narration where the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character.