PORTMANTEAU WORDS
Similar to smog, smaze comes from these 2 words
What are smoke & haze
An article called the Chicago Bears of 1938 this kind of team since they set "a season's record of 56 fumbles"
What is a butterfinger team
A guess about what they're serving in the cafeteria
What is lunch hunch?
A furry feline (5)
What is a tabby?
This outdated word for a bad student comes from the middle name of John Scotus, a theologian & scholar
What is a dunce?
Affluenza meaning unhealthy feelings of entitlement comes from these two words
What is Affluence and Influenza?
This trio of heroes is from Aos Pthos and Aramos
What is Three Musketeers?
A mistake made by the person filling in for your regular teacher
What is a sub flub?
Math term for a digression (7 letters)
What is a tangent?
Named for Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal who introduced tobacco to France.
What is nicotine?
An enhanced bionic human can also be called a cyborg, short for this pair of words
What is a cybernetic organism
Describing getting peanuts for hard work
What is Payday?
A fantastically ugly thing to sit at during class
What is a grotesque desk?
an Austronesian language forming the basis of the standardized national language of the Philippines (7)
What is Tagalog?
Named after Daniel E. Salmon, the veterinary surgeon who identified the bacteria.
What is salmonella?
A hybrid stone fruit: pluot is from these two words
What is plum and apricot?
NASA likened the activity in a certain type of galaxy to the end of a pyrotechnics show."
What is a Starburst (galaxy)?
A comparative chart of all the school's employees
What is a staff graph?
Continuously measure and adjust the balance of (a physiological function or drug dosage) (7)
What is titrate?
Ambrose Philips' sentimental poems inspired a fellow writer to coin this rhyming insult word, using the amb in Ambrose.
What is a namby pamby?
To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables
What is retroactive continuity
Describes a perfect club of wig leaders in London.
What is Kit Kat?
A leader of the school who can't be taken down
What is an invincible principal?
Prehistoric cave dweller (10 letters)
What is a Troglodyte?
Derived from Nicolas Chauvin, a soldier in Napoleon's army, who was excessively and blindly patriotic.
What is chauvinism?