Ever wondered...

What is the quickest way to double your money?
Fold it in half.
What is hail?
Hard boiled rain.
What is Cheddar Gorge?
A large cheese sandwich.
What language do they speak in Cuba?
Cubic.
What is a myth?
A female moth.
What is an archaeologist?
Someone whose career is in ruins.
What is the noisiest game?
Squash because you can't play it without raising a racquet.
Why do birds fly south in the winter?
Because it's too far to walk.
How many balls of string would it take to reach the moon?
Just one if it's long enough.

Find the match

a. SECRETE
b. ALLEGATION
c. UNJUSTLY
d. CERTIFY
e. PERJURY
f. RELEGATE
g. RECRIMINATION
h. ILLEGITIMATE
i. DISCRIMINATE
j. ABJURE
k. LEGACY
l. JURISDICTION

Match the twelve definitions below to the vocabulary words on the top.
a. Without or lacking fairness.
b. The willful giving of false testimony under oath, especially in a legal inquiry.
c. A bitter countercharge (or counteraccusation) against a denouncer.
d. Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor.
e. To confine or send to an inferior or lower position, condition or place.
f. Right, power or authority to hear, to determine and to administer justice in a case.
g. To discharge, generate or release; to separate out (a substance) from cells.
h. To distinguish or note as different; to show partiality; to differentiate against.
i. To attest to as certain; to confirm; to testify or vouch for; to guarantee.
j. Not correct by law; not in accordance with established rules, principles or standards.
k. To repudiate or retract especially with formal solemnity; to recant; to forswear.
l. An affirmation or assertion with little or no proof.

ANSWERS: 1 - g; 2 - L; 3 - a; 4 - i; 5 - b; 6 - e; 7 - c; 8 - j; 9 - h; 10 - k; 11 - d; 12 - f

Language ladder

Paramount \PAIR-uh-mount\ (adjective)
What does it mean?
Superior to all others.
Supreme
How do you use it?
Niko's earnest desire for a good grade in physics was paramount to every other desire he had.

Redeem \rih-DEEM\ (verb)
What does it mean?
1. To buy or win back
2 (a) To ransom or free by paying a price.
(b) To free from the penalties of sin
3. To change for the better, reform
4. To remove the obligation of by payment
5. To make good, fulfill
How do you use it?
I would risk my life to redeem my honor and recapture my sense of decency. I shall pay my debt and blot out the foul mark that sullies my good name.

Tractable \TRAK-tuh-bul\ (adjective)
What does it mean?
Easily led, taught, or controlled
How do you use it?
The old lady made a marvellously patient and tractable invalid.