VOCABULARY TEST
Term for a female goat or for someone who takes care of kids
nanny
A bird's "nose"
beak
Tall fellow:
FIFE RAG
giraffe
There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social & "killer" types
bees
From an eskimo word for "house", this house is made from blocks of hard-packed snow
igloo
Originally a farmer who lived nearby, now it's any nearby resident, especially one right next door
neighbor
An antonym of strong
weak
From Australia:
ORGAN OAK
kangaroo
A noisy bug, sometimes eaten by Khmer people
grasshopper or cricket
Capt. James Cook introduced this word to English speakers after he saw skin designs on Polynesian natives
tattoo
In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this
diameter
A short, shrill sound made by a mouse or a hinge
Squeak
A mountain monkey:
LIAR LOG
gorilla
Of the one million species of insects, more than 300,000 are of this type, including the ladybug
beetle
In many Asian countries, the shoots of this very tall grass are eaten as a vegetable
bamboo
It's what we call the northern or southern half of the Earth, as divided by the equator
hemosphere
The pointed top of a mountain, or the mountain itself
Peak
Ocean mammal:
PIN HOLD
dolphin
Responsible for millions of cases of malaria and dengue fever each year, this insect is one deadly bug
mosquito
Its website has been called the first large-scale search engine of the Internet
Yahoo
While a synonym has the same meaning as another word, this is a word that means just the opposite
antonym
A synonym of Dismal & depressing
bleak
Asian snake fighter:
EGO MOONS
mongoose
About 300,000 people in Africa suffer from sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse variety of this insect
fly
In 1738 Franz Ketterer created the first one of these clocks that chirp the time
Cuckoo