1.) An etymologist and an orthographer walk into a bar. They look up at a blackboard and read the following information about today's brunch special:

"Mimossa. (noun; New Latin from Latin mimus mime + -osa)
: A mixed drink consisting of champagne and orange juice"

Which word specialist felt most professionally obligated to point out a glaring error in this sign?

2.) Select the word or phrase that you think best explains the italicized word in the following quotation:

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."—Stephen Colbert

3.) Artist and author Edward Gorey liked to use anagrams to create different aliases. He actually used two of the following pen names in his work—which one just misses the mark?

4.) Dozens of new words enter the dictionary every year. Which of the following definitions best describes the newcomer tide pool?

5.) Select the word or phrase that you think best explains the italicized word in the following quotation:

"Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh."—Tina Fey

6.) Franklin P. Adams coined the word aptronym to describe a name that is aptly suited to its owner. Which of the following is the most suitable aptronym for an insatiable reader?

7.) Which of the following signs would you most likely expect to find hanging from an e-mail scammer's door?

8.) A person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web is called a:

9.) Select the word or phrase that you think best explains the italicized word in the following quotation:

"Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results."—Gordon Ramsay

10.) Everybody knows the difference between a homophone and a homograph, right? All you have to do now is to pare down the following list to the one pair of homographs, and we won't subject you to this subject ever again!

1.)    B:    The orthographer (or person concerned with letters and spelling) might feel obliged to point out that the word "mimosa" is misspelled on the blackboard.

2.)    A:     A synonym for "untenable" is "indefensible."

3.)    B:    All but "B" are complete anagrams of the name "Edward Gorey."

4.)    C:    A "tide pool" is indeed a pool of salt water left by the tide. Incidentally, "A" is the definition for "wave pool," another recent addition to the dictionary.

5.)    B:    The dictionary definition for ingratiate is "to commend to favor: find favor or favorable acceptance for: make agreeable to someone."

6.)    C:    Paige Turner (page turner) is the aptronym. "A" is actually a palindrome (a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and foreword), and "B" is just a bad pun that actually sounds like the opposite of an "insatiable reader."

7.)    A:    "Phishing" is defined as "a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly."

8.)    C:    A "cybrarian" is the one whose job it is to gather information from the Web.

9.)    B:    The dictionary defines the word boisterous as "rough, stormy and agitated: marked by tumultuous violence and fury : not calm."

10.)    B:    "A" is an example of homophones (words that are pronounced alike but have different spellings or meanings), and the words "able" and Elba" in example "C" are palindromes. Only "B" contains a set of homographs (words that are spelled alike but differ in meaning and pronunciation).