DEAL THE CARDS
15 LETTER WORDS
LITERATURE
NICE "AB"s
WORD ORIGINS
100

In a kids' game an unpaired queen is this; if you're holding it as the last card you lose

Old Maid

100

Secrecy or a type of agreement not to disclose details publicly

Confidentiality

100

A coming of age story that touches on systemic injustice and racism. One of the main characters is Scout.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" 

Harper Lee

100

To give up the throne

abdicate

100

The word for this part of speech is from the Latin for "word"

verb

200

Ochos Locos as its name suggests is an Android app for this card came.

Crazy Eights

200

It's the removal of harmful substances such as radioactive material or poisonous gas from an area

Decontamination

200

This novel is about a dystopian society in which all books are burned. Society is enslaved by mass media, drugs, and forced conformity

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

200

A not so nice collection of pus caused by infection

an abscess

200

Today meaning a buyer or seller of stocks, it may have come from one who opened casks of wine

a broker

300

Hold the gin & deal 7 cards when 3 or 4 play this game instead of just 2 people

Rummy

300

The emission of light by living organisms like fireflies

Bioluminescence

300

Nurse Ratched rules the psychiatric ward with an iron fist. She gets into constant conflict with McMurphy who tries to defy her rules.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kessey

300

Military term for a 180

an about face

300

Now meaning "really great", this adjective is from the Latin for "frightening"

terrific

400

In a variant of this game instead of Do you have any aces? you ask for an ace of a specific suit

Go Fish

400

It's a refusal to obey orders or submit to authority in the military

Insubordination

400

This book involves characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

400

Servile or wretched, like poverty

abject

400

Person comes from "persona", one of these donned by a Roman actor to play a different character

a mask

500

In 1959 a championship for this card game debuted on TV with Charles Goren providing the play-by-play.

Bridge

500

Film industry position of the person who oversees the camerawork & the lighting

Cinematographer

500

This epic poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Paradise Lost 

John Milton

500

A summary of a document or text

an abridgment (or an abstract)

500

French for "raw", it's the 4-letter name of a light grayish-yellowish-brown

ecru