I thought of a category for “Jeopardy” with Alex Trebek, “Advanced Words that Have the Letter X.” I would love to be a writer for that show!
This week’s Vaughan’s Vocabulary is “Jeopardy”-style. See how well you do. Each correct answer has an x, not necessarily at the beginning of the word but in the word.
1. This adjective pertains to a husband and his wife, maybe even his ex-wife:
2. This is not a good thing. It means a dislike or fear of strangers or foreigners, or anyone strange.
3. One of Merriam-Webster’s definitions of this is “to cast off in scales, laminae or splinters.
4. Professor Manders cannot be persuaded, moved or stopped. He can be described with this 10-letter adjective.
5. If I am speaking or writing at length or in detail, I am doing this.
6. A quality or practice that Jesus Christ is worthy to receive.
7. The demands required in particular emergency situations.
8. This adjective means calm, serene, free from disturbance.
9. Dictionary.com defines this noun as “an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one.”
10. The x is at the end of this word. It means to bewilder, confound, confuse.
Answers: What is uxorious? What is xenophobia? What is exfoliate? What is inexorable? What is expatiating? What is exaltation? What are exigencies? What is unvexed? What is maxim? What is flummox?
Editor's Note: Dr. Don Rodney Vaughan is the pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church near Eupora and is on the faculty of East Mississippi Community College, Golden Triangle Campus. Contact him at dvaughan@eastms.edu.
