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This adjective describes an unhealthy fascination with death, disease, or grim subjects.
What is Morbid?
100
This noun means something placed in the wrong historical time period.
What is anachronism?
100
This adjective means found everywhere.
What is ubiquitous?
100
This noun is a payment given for services that are often honorary, like a guest lecture.
What is an honorarium?
100
This adjective means highly learned or scholarly.
What is erudite?
200
Mufasa ___ in the wildebeest stampede.
What is 'bought it'?
200
A judge checks every comma, every citation, and every footnote with moral seriousness; this judge is this.
What is scrupulous?
200
Edgar Allan Poe's raven poem feels gloomily mournfulthis word fits.
What is Morbid?
200
Use the best word in the situation
Using the dates and primary sources, historians must reconstruct the __________ of events to build an accurate timeline.(It's not order!)
What is chronology?
200
Walter White measures blue meth to 99.1% purity—he can be described by this adjective.
What is scrupulous?
300
Luke Skywalker exists in a balance with the Force, or with this adjective.
What is equipoise?
300
A perfect case of this word would be if Gandalf randomly pulled out his laptop.
What is anachronism?
300
This gemstone lacks the sparkle off diamonds.
What is a carbonado?
300
Iron Man Mark I drill bit needs this
What is a carbonado?
300
Weighing peace, freedom, and the bitter necessity of death, Brutus finds himself at a point of perfect ___
What is equipoise
400
A bland essay that somehow manages to be both shallow and boring could be called this.
What is jejune?
400
The spice trader unloading saffron in Kashmir is guilty of this idiom.
What is 'carrying coals to Newcastle'?
400
Sherlock Holmes' brilliant deductions in multiple cases proves how he can be described with this adjective.
What is erudite?
400
A paper so dense and obscure that even smart readers bounce off it might be this.
What is recondite?
400
Interstellar's wormhole math requires this three-body alignment near Gargantua.
What is a syzygy?
500
A campus tradition appearing in every hostel, every club, and every group chat is this.
What is ubiquitous?
500
Everything Everywhere All At Once won 7 oscars.
Its name suggests that it was ____
Its response, awards and ratings made it critically____
What are Ubiquitous and lauded?
500
A scholar explains a text by asking what it means, how it means, and what hidden assumptions shape that meaning; give the adjective for that method.
What is hermeneutic?
500
Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries partly to break free from this 'hand' that locked church land forever—this legal term describes that grip.
What is Mortmain?
500
If the editor says the article is “all crust, no nourishment,” this six-letter insult fits perfectly.
What is Jejune?