Literature
His surname can be translated as 'Fatty.' Schoolchildren have always laughed at it. In fact, the adjective ‘fat’ in Russian is not quite spelled the same - one letter is different.
Leo Tolstoy
Root Words (3)
ADMIRE
admiration; admirable; admirably
To feel confident about something or someone.
Believe in
come rain or shine
whatever happens
What does WWE stand for?
World Wrestling Entertainment
'Vladimir Lighthouse'. He was the Silver Age symbol, a very sharp and avant-garde poet with a short life and tragic fate.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Able ( at least 4)
Ability;
Enable;
Disable;
Disability;
Disabled
To cancel an event that has been previously planned.
Call off
It's (all) Greek to me!
a way of saying that you do not understand something that is said or written
This sport has a maximum time limit but can end at any second.
Boxing
'Parsnip' Do you know the Russian word for this vegetable? This writer sowed the seeds of love for Russian literature into the hearts of Nobel Prize committee members.
Boris Pasternak
Courage (5)
encourage; discourage; encouragement; discouragement; courageous...
To not include someone or something.
Leave out
Add insult to injury
said when you feel that someone has made a bad situation worse by doing something else to upset you:
In this sport, you're legally allowed to be violent to your opponent.
MMA (Mixed martial arts)
What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Equal (6)
equalise;
equalisation;
equality;
inequality;
unequal;
equally
To be able to differentiate something or someone from something or someone else.
Tell apart
At the drop of a hat
without any hesitation; instantly.
In which sport do teams compete to win the Stanley Cup?
Ice hockey (NHL)
One apocryphal story says that novelist Guy de Maupassant said he hated the tower, but ate lunch at its restaurant every day. Why?
—not because he loved the great iron monument but because, so the story goes, it was the only place in Paris where he could sit and not see the tower itself.
Manage (8)
mismanage
management
mismanagement
manager
manageress
managerial
manageable
unmanageable
to have the energy to do something
feel up to something
Blessing in disguise
something that seems bad or unlucky at first but causes something good to happen later
Who was the top scorer in the 2019/20 Premier League season?
Jamie Vardy (with 23 goals)