A person adept at solving mysteries, so named from the main character of the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
What is a Sherlock?
100
an autocratic ruler or king.
What is czar?
100
Plural of bacterium
What is bacterium?
100
luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid
What is sumptuous?
200
A seducer of woman, so named for the main character in the Nicholas Rowe play "The Fair Penitent" .
What is a lothario?
200
government council.
What is soviet?
200
Plural of agendum
What is agenda?
200
a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
What is enmity?
300
hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles, named for Seth Pecksniff, character in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.
What is peckniffery?
300
A forced labor camp; any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners.
What is gulag?
300
Plural of erratum?
What is errata?
300
very small
What is diminutive?
400
characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty, named for the author of "The Prince."
What is Machiavellian?
400
comrade, a term of address
What is tovarish?
400
Plural of datum
What is data?
400
pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
What is remuneration?
500
of, pertaining to, or suggesting an author whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
What is Rabelaisian (François Rabelais)?
500
the policy of public frankness and accountability developed in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev