Fun Words with Paige 46

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  1. 2. A GOLD OR SILVER COIN OF SPANISH PROVENANCE, HEAVILY ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRACTICE OF PIRACY
  2. 3. THE FIRST MAN IN WRITTEN HISTORY TO HAVE BEEN RECORDED AS A VAMPIRE, HE WAS A VILLAGER IN CROATIA DURING THE LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY
  3. 4. A JAPANESE CARTOON CHARACTER WHICH IS A TIME-TRAVELING, ROBOTIC, EARLESS BLUE CAT
  4. 6. KAFKA SAID THE BOOKS WE READ SHOULD BE THIS, IN ORDER TO "BREAK THE FROZEN SEA INSIDE OUR SOULS"
  5. 8. TOPEKA, KANSAS HAS TWICE TEMPORARILY CHANGED ITS NAME TO THIS, IN ORDER TO CELEBRATE POKEMON-RELATED EVENTS
  6. 11. AN EXPRESSION FROM THE UK MEANING "IT'S ALL GONE WRONG," IT MAY BE REFERRING TO ERRORS MADE DURING GLASSBLOWING OR AT THE POTTER'S WHEEL
  7. 12. CHURCH IN ST. PETERSBURG THAT DURING THE SOVIET REGIME WAS TURNED INTO A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO ATHEISM
  8. 15. CHARLES DARWIN DISPARAGINGLY DESCRIBED MARINE IGUANAS THUSLY
  9. 17. MOST RELEVANT OR SIGNIFICANT, AS OF AN ARGUMENT, OR A BULGE IN BATTLE FORMATIONS
  10. 18. EXTENDING OUTWARD IN ALL DIRECTIONS, AS OF A CITYSCAPE
  11. 20. A FEMALE WARRIOR OR MASCULINE WOMAN
  12. 22. MYHOUSE.WAD IS A DOOM MOD STYLED AFTER THIS SURREAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL
  13. 26. DANISH KING OF THE 10TH CENTURY AFTER WHOM A TYPE OF WIRELESS CONNECTION IS NAMED
  14. 27. FAMOUS SHOPPING DISTRICT IN TOKYO
  15. 28. A SLAVIC LYCANTHROPE WHOSE NAME TRANSLATES AS "WOLF FUR," AND WHOSE STATE WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE WORK OF A CURSE OR DUE TO EATING THE MEAT OF THE WOLF
  16. 30. TO MAKE AN IMITATIVE BIRD CALL IN ORDER TO DRAW BIRDS TO THE CALLER, USUALLY UTILIZED BY ORNITHOLOGISTS OR HOBBYIST BIRDWATCHERS
  17. 32. PANT-LEG TIES USED BY AUSTRALIAN PLOUGHMEN AND THE COWBOYS OF THE AMERICAS
  18. 34. ONE OF THE THREE RINGS OF POWER GIFTED TO THE ELVES BY SAURON, ALSO KNOWN AS THE RING OF ADAMANT
  19. 35. HEARING THIS FLOWERY SOUND WAS BELIEVED TO BE AN OMEN OF DEATH IN CELTIC FOLKLORE
  20. 38. A JAPANESE COMPETITIVE BANQUET IN WHICH ORIGINAL POEMS MUST BE CONCEIVED BEFORE FLOATING WINEGLASSES REACH A CERTAIN POINT IN A NEARBY STREAM
  21. 39. FAT OF THE DEAD
  22. 41. TO BOAT-WATCH, AS A HOBBYIST, ESPECIALLY AS OF CANALS OR OTHER WATERWAYS
  23. 42. TO BLOCK OR DELAY A MOTION FROM PASSING BY SPEAKING AT LENGTH WHILE STANDING DURING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR MEETINGS
  24. 43. THIS LARGE ITEM EXCAVATED FROM A PEAT BOG IN DENMARK IS AN EXCELLENTLY PRESERVED EXAMPLE OF A RITUALISTIC OFFERING FROM THE BRONZE OR IRON AGE
  25. 44. LEAFSTALK
  26. 45. A SHREWD PERSON NOT GUIDED BY PRINCIPLES, ESPECIALLY AS OF A POLITICIAN
  27. 46. PROGNOSTICATOR OF FUTURES, USUALLY MALE
  28. 48. AN INCAN SPIRITUAL RITE INVOLVING CHILD SACRIFICE AMONG OTHER OFFERINGS TO THE GODS, PERFORMED TO COMMEMORATE VERY IMPORTANT EVENTS OR AS A SUPPLICATION DURING TIMES OF CRISIS
  29. 49. AUSTRIAN TRAINED HORSE RENOWNED FOR ITS "BALLET OF THE WHITE STALLIONS," A SERIES OF ADVANCED CLASSICAL DRESSAGE MOVES
  30. 50. THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY IN LEGEND
  31. 51. AN ART INSTALLATION IN NANTES, CONSISTING OF SEVERAL MECHANICAL SCULPTURES, MANY OF WHICH PORTRAY LARGE-SCALE ANIMALS OR INSECTS AND WHICH VISITORS ARE ABLE TO CLIMB OR RIDE
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  1. 1. AN OLD TERM USED TO MEAN A FAVORABLE LOOKOUT POINT (USUALLY WITHIN A LARGE ROOM)
  2. 5. A YULE LOG CAKE ORIGINATING FROM FRANCE BUT POPULAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD DURING THE WINTER HOLIDAY SEASON
  3. 7. AN AMERICAN PAINTER KNOWN FOR HER WORK ON ROMANCE NOVEL COVERS
  4. 9. BLAND OR INSIPID
  5. 10. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THIS WORD WAS IN CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES; COMING FROM AN OLD FRENCH WORD MEANING "TO CHATTER LIKE BIRDS," IT NOW REFERS TO A SPECIALIZED OR TECHNICAL LINGO
  6. 13. THE BELOVED TEACHER OF THE CLASS ON THE NONEXISTENT 19TH STORY OF WAYSIDE SCHOOL
  7. 14. CRYSTALS IN STAR TREK USED TO ACTIVATE A WARP CORE
  8. 16. THE GROWN FORM OF A RA'ZAC IN THE INHERITANCE SAGA
  9. 19. BILBO CALLS THE GIANT SPIDERS OF MIRKWOOD THIS TO TAUNT THEM; IT'S AN OLD ENGLISH WORLD FOR THE ARACHNID CREATURE
  10. 21. GERMANIC DEITY WHO PROTECTED UNBORN CHILDREN, CONTROLLED THE WEATHER, AND WAS THE PATRON GODDESS OF WEAVERS
  11. 23. ADVERTISING ON NON-TRADITIONAL ITEMS, SUCH AS BRANDED PENS, TOTE BAGS, OR BALLOONS, IS REFERRED TO AS THIS
  12. 24. INCIDENT DURING CHARLES THE VI'S REIGN, WHEREIN A "WILD MAN" MASQUE TURNED INTO A FIRE WHICH NEARLY KILLED THE KING AND DID KILL SEVERAL HIGH-RANKING NOBLES
  13. 25. MOZART'S GREAT ITALIAN RIVAL
  14. 29. THE FEMALE REGNANT OF CANDY LAND WHO WAS SADLY DEMOTED IN LATER VERSIONS OF THE GAME
  15. 31. ONE OF THE FIRST HARDCORE PUNK BANDS OF THE MIDWEST, THEY WERE FORMED IN SAINT PAUL, MN, AND NAMED AFTER THE DANISH/NORWEGIAN TITLE OF A 1970S MEMORY BOARD GAME
  16. 33. THE SURNAME OF FIVE SISTERS WHO ALL SERVED AS MISTRESSES TO KING LOUIS XV
  17. 36. ONE WHO RUNS ERRANDS FOR AN IMPORTANT PERSON OR AN OFFICE, PROBABLY AN UNPAID INTERN IN TODAY'S ECONOMY
  18. 37. ORDERING FROM A CLASSIC DINER, YOU MIGHT SAY "BURN THE BRITISH," TO RECEIVE THIS ITEM
  19. 40. INVENTOR OF HOLOPOETRY AND "BIO ARTIST," KNOWN FOR HIS CONTROVERSIAL WORK IN GENETIC ALTERATION AS AN ARTFORM, SUCH AS WITH "GFP BUNNY"
  20. 47. THE CARDASSIAN NAME FOR DEEP SPACE NINE