Reebates
dfn: n agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment
drv: Latin root word, ******, means "to drive through or accomplish."
TRANSACTION
drv: may come from the indigenous Aimara word ****, meaning "where the land ends"
Chile
dfn: a subdivision of a company of soldiers
drv: mid 16th century: from French ***** (now obsolete), variant of *******, literally ‘small ball’, diminutive of *****
PLATOON
named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of ***** an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is commonly said that Lord *****, during long sessions of cribbage and other card games at public gambling houses, would order his valet to bring him salt beef between two pieces of toasted bread.
SANDWICH
The name is a calque of the Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury', reflecting the fact that the Germanic god **** (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as "Germanic Mercury".
WEDNESDAY
dfn: dimension - represent all the possible properties dimension items could have
drv: Latin verb *****, which is made up the prefix ****, meaning "to," and ***** meaning "give or bestow."
ATTRIBUTE
Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra, sailing down the West African coast, saw the tall mountains rising up on what is now the Freetown Peninsula and called them the "Lion Mountains,"
SIERRA LEONE
dfn: This common Army term has two different meanings. It can be a Morse code signal given to intelligence radio operators or it can describe a soldier marching out of time with the cadence of the other soldiers.
DITTYBOPPER
derived from the southern Italian dialects spoken in Apulia, Calabria, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise, Basilicata, Lazio, and Marche, is the diminutive form of **** ("cut"), or *** ("to cut off"), derived from the method of working.
MOZZARELLA
The Roman month ***** was named after the Latin term ****, which means "purification", via the purification ritual ***** held on ***** 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman calendar.
FEBRUARY
a commercial arrangement between a supplier and a buyer, where the supplier agrees to sell products or services at a price that differs from the standard or list price.
SPECIAL PRICING AGREEMENT
Christopher Columbus named the island Santa María de ****** in 1493 after Our Lady of *****, a shrine to the Virgin Mary venerated in the Spanish town of ******, Extremadura
GUADELOUPE
dfn: a noncommissioned officer in the armed forces, in particular (in the US Army or Marine Corps) an NCO ranking above corporal
drv: Anglo-French ****** "servant, valet, court official, soldier", from Middle Latin ***** "servant, vassal, soldier".
SERGEANT
may be derived from the Italian word ***, meaning 'a knot in wood', or from ****, meaning 'knuckle'. It has been a traditional type of Italian pasta since Roman times. It was introduced by the Roman legions during the expansion of the empire into the countries of the European continent.
GNOCCHI
DFN: extremely disrespectful towards something considered ****
DRV: ***** (pronounced ******) is a Latin word that means the theft of a sacred thing. It comes from the words *****, which means "****," and legere, which means "to steal." In Roman law, ***** was considered a serious crime and was often punished by death.
SACRILEGIOUS
DAILY DOUBLE
say what the acronym stands for and spell it out for double points.....
National Flooringcovering Alliance
The word "****" is derived from a Malay word describing the frizzy Melanesian hair, and ******* or ****** was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, who in 1545 noted the resemblance of the people to those he had seen along the ***** coast of Africa.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
dfn: an army officer of high rank
drv: came to English from the mid-16th-century French word ****, meaning commander of a regiment, or column, of soldiers.
COLONEL
the name and the dish – is of ancient origin. There are various theories about the word, such as the Latin ***** for “cooking pot,” or the ancient Greek and Roman ***** for “flat piece of bread”.
LASAGNA
dfn: lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid
drv: ******- comes from the Greek *****, meaning “lung.”
PNEUMONIA
amounts of money that have been earned or spent, but not yet paid.
accrual
From German *******, after the name of the ruling dynasty, which in turn derives its name from that of ***** Castle, which means “bright stone”, from *****, an obsolete variant of **** (“light, bright”), + ****** (“stone”)
LIECHTENSTEIN
dfn: a deputy or substitute acting for a superior.
Drv: French lieu, place, and tenant, holder, one who holds his authority from a senior officer.
LIEUTENANT
in cookery, "hunter-style," by 1973, from Italian, literally "hunter," from past participle of *** "to hunt, chase"
CACCIATORE
drv: First of the States to have an Indian name. From the Algonquin word "*****," meaning "great-hill-small-place,” possibly for the hills around Boston as seen from the bay."
MASSACHUSETTS