5-LETTER WORDS
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5-LETTER WORDS
THE POLITICAL LIFE
Jeopardy! Round
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
100

One of these doesn't make sense, it makes just a cent

Penny

100

Livestock successfully stage rebellion, pigs end up blowing it for everyone

Animal farm

100

Headgear for a king, or part of a tooth

Crown

100

Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here

The ring

100

As this man "Was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be...in...the Earth"

Jonah

200

An old synonym for an overseas telegram, today it brings HBO & USA to your home

Cable

200

Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home

Robinson crusoe

200

It "goes before a fall" & before "Prejudice" in a Jane Austen title

Pride

200

An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds

Lame duck

200

"If a man have" 100 of these & one "be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine" to seek the stray?

Sheep

300

It's the crosshatched paper used in math class

Graph

300

2 guys dream of owning a farm, one kills the boss' daughter-in-law, then his pal kills him

Of mice and men

300

It's the zodiac sign symbolized by a ram

Aries

300

From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place

Absentee

300

"Suffer" these, "and forbid them not, to come unto me"

Little children

400

Alone, it's an aquarium fish; with coddle, it means to indulge excessively

Molly

400

Frenchman swipes some bread, gets 19 years, gets out, gets pursued by a cop who dies

Les miserable

400

Soup's on! & we need this long-handled spoon or scoop to serve it

Ladel

400

Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone & outlines the main issues

Keynote

400

"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out...if" this "offend thee, cut it off"

Right hand

500

A full-court move in basketball, or the Fourth Estate

Press

500

Con man checks into mental hospital to avoid prison farm, meets nasty nurse, doesn't check out

One flew over the cuckoos nest

500

It can be an object from the past, or a personal item associated with a saint

Relic

500

From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause

Coalition

500

In parables that bring business to dentists, "There shall be weeping and" this activity

Gnashing of teeth