Wednesday 13 May 2015

The Dictionary Game

This is one of my favourite games. For instructions on how to play take a look back to our blog entry for 4th June 2015 entitled 'Truth or Lies'.  Sometime we'll need to play a multilingual version of this game :-)

In the meantime, here's a test; can you guess the correct meaning of these words  (answers below) ...

hadal
1.  A Saxon hiding place used during the Norman Conquest
2. An rare breed of horse used by ancient nomadic tribes-people in the Middle East
3.  Parts of the ocean below 6000 metres
4.  A small mammal that lives amongst rocks
5.  An industrial zone of Kuala Lumpur
6.  A type of bird found in the Amazon
7.  The name of a prison used in Victorian times

napaea
1.  A sleeping condition caused by a change of time zone
2.  To be sea-sick
3.  A very sweet dish from Sri Lanka
4.  A Spanish word for a personal diary
5.  A herbal plant
6.  A type of fairy that lives in woodlands
7.  A colloquialism from Yorkshire meaning, "I will not pay you"


Answers:
hadal - 3. parts of the ocean below 600 metrres
napaea - 6. a type of fairy that lives in woodlands

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