From S to Y
Sci. Abbr.
2020s & 1920s Slang
Tricky Questions
Silence, Letters!
100

To move side to side, or to influence someone to change course

Sway

100

Biologically speaking, it's what the N-A stands for in RNA & DNA

Nucleic Acid

100

This word used in the 1920s for cash also means a foul in billiards where the cue ball is pocketed

Scratch

100

Just Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest Mountain in the World?

Mount Everest

100

The Terminal "S" in this word for pieces of trash is really just garbage

Debris.

200

This verb can mean to kill; in slang, crack someone up; or more recent slang, kill with one's fashion

Slay

200

sec Is short for this trig function

secant

200

This shortened Word precedes "Check" in a term used on social media for reviewing one's attire before hitting the town

Fit

200

If you enter a room with a matchbook & there's a candle, oil lamp & heater, this is what you'd light first

the match

200

According to Lil Wayne, real "G"s move in silence just like in this dish

Lasagna

300

It's the kind of school where one trains for the priesthood

Seminary

300

C is short for this unit of electric charge named for a french physicist

Coulomb

300

Oxford's word of the year 2023, it's what someone has if they spit fire game to the hunks or the honeys.

Rizz

300

It's the 11-letter word that all Canadians pronounce incorrectly

Incorrectly

300

I Accuse the only "c" in this word meaning to charge with a crime of being useless

Indict.

400

The Apennines are mainly made up of this, one of the 3 basic kinds of rocks.

Sedimentary

400
If you're a web developer, you probably use HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) & CSS, Short for this

Cascading Style Sheets

400

A part of an animal is in this 1920s slang word for a dancer, someone ungulating & undulating to that hot jazz

hoofer

400

If a British farmer has 22 sheep & All but 9 die in a tragic shearing incident, this is how many he has left

9

400

Trippy! Merriam-Webster says the only silent "j" in English is in the name of this drug.

Marijuana

500

To Taint or Tarnish

Sully

500

PTX can be short for this condition of air in the pleural space.

Pneumothorax

500

Showing your significant other's hands but no face on the ig is known as this two-word term, like a preview for a new product

soft launch

500

It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister

He's Dead

500

Remember, Only the first "M" is silent in this memory aid

Mnemonic