"V"OCABULARY
Disease-spreading rats & mice & cockroaches, oh my!
Adrien Brody won an Oscar for playing the Chopin-loving Wladyslaw Szpilman in this film
The Pianist
On a school progress report, it often comes between good & needs improvement A 19th century sea captain coined this term for the U.S. flag
Satisfactory
Phrase that flashes on a sign during a live broadcast
on air
Juba, the capital of South Sudan, is on the White branch of this mighty river, the longest in the world.
the Nile
It's a 9-letter word for the entryway in a church where literature & bulletin boards are found
Vestibule
Alongside David Oyelowo, who played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Omar Dorsey portrayed another lion of the civil rights era, Reverend James "Shackdaddy" Orange, in this 2014 movie
Selma
The muscular part of a horse that includes the pelvis & rear legs is referred to by this plural word
The hindquarters
A possessive adjective begins this admission of fault popularized on basketball courts, notably by Manute Bol
my bad
2,200 miles off the coast of Chile, this island forms the eastern extent of Polynesia, often known for its large stone face sculptures
Easter Island
Insert 2 letters into a word meaning to disappear to get this term meaning to defeat in battle
Vanquish (from vanish)
The decades-long hunt for Osama bin Laden was chronicled in this Oscar-winning film
Zero Dark Thirty
Developed from water skiing & later skurfing, it's the sport enjoyed by being pulled by a rope from a boat as you use a something like a snowboard to skate across the water surface
Wakeboarding
Taking a gamble? Do this or head back to your domicile
go big
Cleveland is situated where this river enters Lake Erie
the Cuyahoga
It's used to describe a liquid that's thick & sticky
Viscous
This Christopher Nolan film from 2017 saw Barry Keoghan spending a lot of time in a boat off the coast of France
Dunkirk
It's the proper term for a mapmaker
Cartographer
There's a synonym for humor or cleverness in this phrase meaning "namely"
to wit
This island in the Indian ocean was named after a get-together between separated French revolutionaries
Réunion Island
Used for heart conditions & high blood pressure, it's any medication designed to widen the blood vessels
Vasodilator
More than $13 million was spent on this 1962 David Lean epic that re-created the town of Aqaba on a beach in southern Spain
Lawrence of Arabia
It's the scientific study of how drugs work & their therapeutic effects
Pharmacology
1960s painting style that used geometric forms to create visual effects
op art
Kanpai! This capital of Hokkaido hosted the 1972 Winter Olympic Games
Sapporo