1.) Melville Dewey, inventor of the library classification system, was sometimes also an inventive speller. Playing around with some unsounded letter combinations, he spelled one ordinary word

"gheaughteighptough."

What is the more commonly known spelling of this word?

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

"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."—Jonathan Miller

3.) 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 a chronic overeater?

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

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

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."—Aldous Huxley

6.) The bikini bathing suit was actually named after the atomic explosion that took place in 1946 on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. A person or place that has become a word is called a(n):

7.) Which of the following vintage TV sitcom titles best exemplifies the definition of the recent dictionary entry polyamory?

8.) Newcomer to the dictionary "ollie" can NOT be defined as a maneuver in which of the following?

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

"I'm a walking, talking enigma."—Larry David

10.) Which of the following is NOT an anagram for "William Shakespeare"?

1.)    A:     Here's the breakdown for "gheaughteighptough:"

gh is "p" (as in hiccough)
eau is "o" (as in beau)
ght is "t" (as in naught)
eigh is "a" (as in neigh)
pt is "t" (as in pterodactyl)
ough is "o" (as in though)

2.)    A:    The dictionary defines the term avant garde as "a group (as of writers or artists) that is unorthodox and untraditional in its approach; sometimes: such a group that is extremist, bizarre, or arty and affected to a representative."

3.)    B:    Gore Mandize (gormandize: "to eat gluttonously or ravenously") is the aptronym. "A" is actually a palindrome (a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and foreword).

4.)    C:    The dictionary defines the word ringette as "a game of Canadian origin for women and girls that is played on ice with two teams of six players on skates whose object is to drive a rubber or plastic ring into the opponents' goal with a straight stick."

5.)    C:    The dictionary definition for abominate is "to hate or loathe intensely."

6.)    A:    Eponyms are people or places that have become words. In his book Names, author Paul Dickson provides information on a number of eponymous names, including:

Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-94). She was a well-known women's rights advocate, temperance crusader, and abolitionist who neither invented nor first wore bloomers but spoke in favor of bloomers as an alternative to the hoop skirt.

Jules Leotard. The French trapeze artist who advocated "more natural garb that does not hide your best features." Somewhere along the line the name for that garb became pluralized. Superman, for example, wears leotards, not a leotard.

7.)    B:    The dictionary defines polyamory as "the state or practice of having more than one open romantic relationship at a time," as indicated by the "many loves" of early sitcom teenage lothario Dobie Gillis.

8.)    C:    New addition to the dictionary ollie is defined as both "1: a maneuver in skateboarding in which the skater kicks the tail of the board down while jumping in order to make the board pop into the air," and "2: a maneuver in snowboarding in which the rider transfers weight from the front to the back foot to snap the board up off the ground."

9.)    B:    An enigma is defined as both "an inexplicable circumstance, event, or occurrence," and "a person not readily understood: an inscrutable person; often: one that exhibits an incomprehensible mixture of opposed qualities."

10.)    A:    You can rearrange the 18 letters in the name "William Shakespeare" to form both "B" and "C," but you'll be short an "i" in "A."