What's the missing word?

Very close.....zombie....is the answer......I will try again...

From A Thousand Forests in One Acorn by Valerie Miles:

"That year we sought out _ _ _ _ _ _ (6) places."

I think there should be no clues until after three guesses, then there can be three more guesses. Just my opinion.

"u n i q u e" ?

Nope

b t w, what was wrong with the guess "Zombie"
((#250) in the previous thread?)

OMG! I saw only #251 and did not scroll up.....so sorry.....roland.....go ahead and start a new one....please....

"They were (mediocre). . .scientists, who had slogged for years in radio astronomy and had found no fame. They wanted the easy fame of a
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ nonsense.

Serious Men
by Manu Joseph

8-letter adjective, commonly seen in a kind of literary criticism Its basic meaning is stretched here to mean something like "exciting", "celebrity-creating".

stellar?

Not stellar; more literary

spirited ?

Not "spirited"

starring ?

Useless?

not "useless" (althouth this use of it might imply that, too). --3rd guess
ANSWER: "dramatic".

Please set the NEXT, who will.

"For a long while my father said nothing. I thought, perhaps, he was _ _ _ _ _ _ too."

The Breast by Philip Roth

insane ?

Nope

A verb....

musing ?

s e n i l e ?

sadder....that is a clue

s o r r o w ?

a very common verb.....

s o m b r e?

Crying.......someone else start one......

Is that a clue?

b e w a i l ?

"Is (24) a clue?" (25)

No, I think itʻs an invitation to post a new puzzle.
The 6-letter word of (14) was "crying".

Sorry for the ambiguity. ...crying is the answer.....Open invitation for someone else to start a round....

"What is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ way to die?"

Killing Jesus, A History by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

Favorite?

t e r r i b le ?

no to both

somehow I missed posting this last night

tasty or very nice

Tasteful?

pleasant ?

no - "sweetest" asked Lepidus.

"The Kind That comes without warning," the dictator (Julius Caesar) shot back.

just finished reading, therefore another missing word from this book.

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's," Jesus tells them. "And to God what is God's."
....... , the Nazarene has marginalized Rome without directly _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ it.

"attacking" ?

offending ?

offending is correct

Anyone can submit a new puzzle. I passed.

"Can the doctor of souls function here as helper, beyond __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ custom and correct
methods? . . .Is he shown at times another and higher therapeutic goal than the familiar one? Can he try his strength, not with conscious or unconscious, founded or unfounded guilt feelings but with the self-manifesting existential guilt itself?

The Knowledge of Man
by Matin Buber

12-letter adjective.

c o n v e n t i o n a l ?

Not "conventional" but, another adjective with the
same two suffixes. Buber would probably agree that the
"custom" he applies it to was
also "conventional".

time-honoured ?

Not "time-honored"/ "time-honoured" (In U. S. spelling, thatʻs only 11 letters.)

A more technical adjective, not seen much in theology or philosophy writings, often in occupational writings.

conceptional ?

p r o f /e s s i/ o n a l ?

"professional" is right,
@razzamajazz!

Please set the "NEXT".

Next:

Extracted from: We Were Soldiers Once... And Young
by Harold G.Moore and Joseph L.Galloway

Back in the Albany area, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _(8) of the battlefield continued.Survivors and witnesses most often use the word "carnage" for the terrible things they saw in the brush and tall elephant grass.

remnants ?

Nope.

savagery ?

Nope.

I feel the authors have used the wrong word. But anyway, the word was printed on the page, the word's definition is quite similar 'to do investigations or searches " in order to find dead and injured soldiers in the context of text as intended by the authors.

Scouring?

No.

tracings ?

Wrong.

Missing word: policing

Next puzzle, anyone can submit

"Throughout my time in his employ, my personal relationship with Cemal Bey remained _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

From The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

f r i e n d l y (8) ?

discreet ?

No......steady is a hint

r e l i a b l e ?

c o n s t a n t ?

the same?

solid?

stable

> smus

The missing word is having 8 (eight) letters. The number of letters is a "clue" to a missing word.

Razz got it....constant. Take it away!

The one person who lives in a commander's back pocket is his radio operator,connected by that six-foot-long black-plastic electrical _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _(9) cord.

(Page 273)

Extracted from: We Were Soldiers Once,,,And Young

by Harold G.Moore &
Joseph L. Galloway

> razzamajazz

excuse me

> smus

Forget the mistake.

Give a try at a new puzzle @ 67.

Extension?

No.

Microphone?

Nope.

umbilical ?

You are right. Next puzzle from you.

After signing the Declaration of Independence, Franklin allegedly said, "Gentlemen, we must now all hang together, or we shall most _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ all hang separately."

The Founding Fathers Book by Meg Greene, MA, MS and Paula Stathakis, PhD

"assuredly" ?

correct - your turn please

Next puzzle?

"But Manilaʻs glittering skyline and walled
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ s for the ultra-rich were unlike anything I had seen in Pakistan."

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid

8-letter noun; plural, so I might as well admit the last letter is S.

Enclaves?

"enclaves" is right, @hemlokgang

Please set the "NEXT".

"Thirty years is a long time, and a marriage acquires an ingrown, almost incestuous quality, with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rhythms of feeling, dialogue, and associations."

From The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustrvedt

c o n t r o l ?

c e r t a i n ?

It does start with c........

c o r d i a l ?

Nope

Hint......complicated

c o n f u s e?

I donʻt think it goes too well with "rhythms", but Iʻll guess: "cramped" ?

Think intricate......

c o m p l e x?

cluster ?
I realize it isnʻt an adjective
unless itʻs followed by the word "bombs", but the
initial-C enticed me to guess it.

Correct razz...it is complex! Take it away. ...

New Puzzle:

Cain becomes the first murderer, and the downward _ _ _ _ _ _(6) continues from Adam to Noah, paving the way for God's sweeping judgement upon the wickedness of the world.

Extracted: a sentence from a daily devotional reading, a book titled
Your Daily Walk by Walk Thru The Bible Ministries

Note: A simple one to solve.

Spiral?

Yes.

"With her smooth, firm skin and her thirty-two teeth flashing like flaming paraffin whenever she opened her mouth, and her suggestive eyes deepening beneath those long lashes like the setting sun, and a light and lilting accent (inherited from her Italian father) whose aftertaste--sharp as mustard--lodged in your throat but still lightened your heart with sweetness, and with her hands darting about without design but, like a spider, stunning all it touched, in wave after wave of warm allure, as she secured her conquest, she was, perhaps without knowing it, the pure embodiment of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _."

From The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Quite a sentence, isn't it?

s e d u c t i o n ?

A alluring description of feminine's seduction of a beautiful woman.

No

e n d e a r i n g ?

s e x u a l i t y ?

Think femininity......

g e n t i l i t y ?

a wild guess
/
s v e l t n e s s ?

girlishness ?

Girlishness is close...too young, though.....think more mature

not even sure the word exists, but
/
w o m a n n e s s ?

Womanhood. .....so close roland.. why don't you start the next round?

NEXT:

"(Gen, George S. Patton) wrote in his diary that ʻIf I am sent (to the UK) to simply TRAIN troops, I shall
__ __ __ __ __ __.ʻ "

(emphasis added)

Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War; a Story of the Three Greatest Generals of the Greatest War
by Terry Brighton

derail?

Not quite "derail(ing)", but something that can be
almost as much of a shock (more to the
employer, he no doubt thinks, than to
the one __ __ __ __ __ __ ing.)

r e s i g n ?

"r e s i g n" is right. (Such was the not-so-veiled threat that GP was thinking of "hurling".) If he had hurled it, (i m o), the right answer would be: "PROMISES will get you nowhere!"

Please set the NEXT.

Next puzzle. Any member can submit.

NEXT

"Abraham Lincoln is (sic) a religious man but not a
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
He was born into a Christian home in the wilderness, where established churches were rare.

Killing Lincoln: The shocking Assassination that Changed America forever
by Bill OʻReilly and
Martin Dugard

c h r i s t i a n ?

Spiritual?

dogmatist ?

None of the above. (119--121)
But ;\it's one letter longer than I had
up there (118). Sorry.

Ten-letter NOUN; compound, made of
2 short words, (1 syll., then 2 Sylls. the 2nd of which
is not often used without an
adjectival noun preceding it.

conformist ?

Churchgoer?

"Churchgoer" is right!

Please set the next.

"You could buy at Li Chong's store a pair of slippers, a kimono, a _ _ _ _ of whiskey, and a cigar."

From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

pint ?

Correct...... next?

"__ __ __ __ __ areas (of the State) are suffering terribly right now, says (Kelley) Withy, "because we train people on Oʻahu, and most of them stay on ʻOʻahu.

"Hawaiʻiʻs Health Worker Shortage Expected to Worsen"
by Mary Alice Kaʻiiulani Milham

5-letter adjective (NOT derived from a proper name.)

r u r a l ?

"rural" is right!

Please set the "NEXT"

(I remembering posting this yesterday, but it somedhow hasnʻt stayed on the screen.)

Next puzzle:

From: Charles H. Spurgeon by W.Y. Fullerton , Moody Press, 1966

- Preface To Original Edition

The contemporary sketches of the life of Spurgeon are an interesting

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (12) of significant facts,but they scarely give an adequate

picture of the man as he lived and labored with such prodigious energy.

conglomerate ?

You are right.

Next puzzle from you.

From Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T. R. Fehrenbach

The history of Texas, and the people of Texas, were _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ {8} history and

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ people, and in part, a part of the story of world.

Are there 2 missing words?

The game is based on 1 missing word.

same word twice

p r i m e v a l ?

no, starts with a capital letter

M e x i c a n s ?

no go north

A m e r i c a n ?

Germanic ?

American is correct

New Puzzle:

Extracted from:

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
2009,
Little,Brown and Company ISBN 978-0-316-07584-8
US$27.99

"Thirty years ago,the videocassette recorder came on the market, and it was a
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (10 letters) product,too; it was supposed to make it possible to
tape a television show so that no one would ever again be chained to the prime-time schedule".

t i m e s a v i n g ?

No.

l i b e r a t i n g ?

Nope.

The missing word is much worse than "liberating". The word I would say is the opposite of the word,liberating in relation to the use of an article or instrument causing hindrance or obstacles creating more effort and time to achieve to operate the process of recording a TV programme from TV. (clue).

By now, if you think hard you will know the correct word used by the writer in this sentence of his book. Simple, it is almost giving away the answer.

misleading?

Wrong.

After failed three attempt by members, the correct missing word is

d i s r u p t i v e (page 16)

Next new puzzle from anyone to submit. Join the FUN of the game. Think liked the author of the book. What is the "suitable" word in a sentence .

"Mexico needed all the help it could get to fight the
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
__ __ corruption and fear that kept the three most powerful drug cartelsʻ grip
on the country inviolable..."

"The Bourne Retrilbution; a new Jason Bourne Novel"
by Eric Van Lustbader

(10-letter adjective), strictly speaking a participle, but
the verb-form of it is rarely seen.)

i n f a l l i b l e ?

underlying?

NOT "infallible; nor "underlying"ʻ
has a prefix, but a rarer one than "in-" or "under-"

p r e m e d i a t e ?

entrenching?

Close enough, @RENRIGHT: itʻs "entrenchED". (The
"--ing" word has one letter too many.)

Please set the "NEXT".

>>>

"_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ like the economy, or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it's real, it dies."

From The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Anyone? Are you out there?

Out here, and out of the game, I guess, because the
very tenous fill-ins that come to mind, just miss the right number* of letters.

*(12 before the pluralizing?)

Civilization's

In 162, I should have said 12 (letters)
before the POSESSIVIZING.

SInce no one got it, I think you, hemlockgang, should give the "NEXT".

From Proud Beggars:

"When I told them I was a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ worker the inspector quickly changed his tone."

"Sanitation" ?

warm......

"Collection" ?

Cold.....think broader than one department

g o v e r n m e n t ?

Bingo! Your turn.

(Y)ou were tethered to the nervous
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ day and night; your
Groomed hair lost gloss, your
Smooth body roundness. Truly
You suffered much.

"Remembrance Day" by Chinua Achebe

(This is a very metaphorical usage;
I'm not sure anyone could be
literally "tethered to" one of these
-- a noun meaning a horrendous
physical landscape feature.)

Graveyard?

Not "Graveyard".

Note on the hint (172):
The __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ itself is called "nervous"; unpoetically, itʻs more that one would BE nervous, IF attached somehow ("tethered") to the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

I give up...cannot even come up with a guess.....

172> 174 ANSWER: p r e c i p i c e

okidoki then....

"As Gao Ma _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ over the wall, two shots rang out, raising puffs of smoke and sending
tiny shards of the mud wall down on him." (9 letters)

The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

"clambered" ?

Close .....on the right track

"s l i t h e r e d" ?

It does start with the letter "s"

"scrambled" ?

that's it

"A drug dealer and yet he was one of the men
who guarded Taniko and warned Tala to stay away from
Jimmy. A bad guy with a good __ __ __ __ __ __?
Interesting."

Just the Right Amount of Wrong
by Gary Carr

Spirit?

"Spirit" (184-185)

No, but it does begin with S.

streak?

"Streak" is right

Please set the NEXT.

"Marie came to my door in tears, begging to be forgiven, saying she never expected such _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (13 letters)--though she should have, knowing Dumas."

The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg

"r e c r i m i n a t i o n" ?

No...but the first two letters are "re"

r e v e r b e r a t i o n ?

nope

r e c a l c i t r a n c e ?

nope...think orchestra section

r e p e r c u s s i o n s ?

bingo! Your turn...

"(Nyaluhana). . . had many jealous rivals in
the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and some within
his own matrilineal kin group, all of whom
would have rejoiced to see him so humbled."

The Forest of Symbols
by Victor Turner

I donʻt remember ever seeing, still less hearing
this word before; but my knowledge of Latin
made the meaning clear to me. It is more often
seen with the same root plus a different ( but also
3-letter) suffix. Even more common is a near-synonym
( 3-, not 4- syllable word) of Anglo-Saxon origin.

Is the root....gener

The root is 5 letters, but not "gener-".
Think place rather than ancestry.

locality?

No locality; and the 3-letter
suffix is not "-ity"; thatʻs the suffix
of the better-known, near-synonym.

vicin....?

....a g e ! (is the non- "ity" suffix).

For getting the root (vicin-) correctly,
please set the NEXT. It may be that
the -age suffix is too difficult - - used only by a
few anthropolgists.

What an interesting word!

From The Melancholy of Resistance byLaszlo Krasznahorai:

"So he went on with the others past Marothy Square, waiting patiently until he should recover his strength and could explain to them how naive and childlike his assumptions had been, consoling himself with the illusion that, though the cosmos was vast and the earth merely a tiny speck without it, the force that drives the cosmos was ultimately _ _ _....."

God ?

nope

" i r e" ? (though I would hope not)

chuckle,no.....think more upbeat

j o y ?

That's it....

"(E)ven in Lincoln's home county of Sangamon, I
heard things said against him . . .
There is a residue of old __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
still in Sangamon County, for North and
South meet here.

"Illinois Journey" (1957) repub. in
It all Adds Up (1994)
by Saul Bellow

antagonism?

a plural: Not "antagonism",
but sometimes
reasons FOR it

prejudices?

Not "prejudices"

foreigners?

Not "Foreigners". You were
closer with "prejudices": itʻs
an abstract plural.

contentions?

Not "Contentions" (which is
one letter too long)

disunities?

not "disunities", though
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __s sure can

cause, or be concurrent with,
disunities.

Totally stumped!!

As you were the only one who
tried, you should set the "NEXT">

the word, b t w, (212) was "g r i e v a n c e s"

Ahhhhh......

Will s5art a new one tomorrow. No book handy at the moment.

From The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins:

"He was _ _ _ _ _ _ when he got off the phone with her."

"P i s s e d" (?) (Excuse the expression)

This fiction (?) b t w, has been
given the tag "Unreliable Narrator" !

no, but correct emotion

sadder ?

No......angry would be closer

madder ?

No...think "smoking" mad

" h e a t e d" ?

No....think smoking

"f u m i n g" ?

Bingo! Your turn.

"The buying of orchids always has in it
a certain __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
flavour."

"The Strange Orchid" by H. G. Wells
- - adjective --would hardly be applied
to "orchids" but might be applicable to
the act of "buying".

extravagant?

Not "extravagant"

Hint; it is, in fact, a 4-syllable adjective,
one that is sometimes
a highbrow way of describing
a kind of fiction usually described
by a 7 letter 2-syllable noun/adjective.

I have tried and tried and cannot even come up with a guess that fits

Trying a new and perhaps easier one:

"(T)he caller continued: ʻI wish to inform you that
this evening at six, Professor (Enrico) Fermi
will be called on the telephone from
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.ʻ "
(The answer is a proper noun.)

Enrico Fermi, Trailblazer in
Nuclear Physics
by Erica Stux

237>240, b t w, was "speculative", in the
opening line of a short story. Strange that
Wells should call orchid-buying that. The context
perhaps didnʻt make much of a connection.

Wisconsin?

Not Wisconsin, and not a U. S. site.

Alexander?

Not Alexander. A place name
(European) not a personal name.

Amsterdam?

Not Amsterdam, but another
9-letter capital

Stockholm?

Stockholm it is! Please
set the
"NEXT"

From Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey:

"If you lift enough rocks, you will find a nest of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _."

"a l b a t r o s s"?

Much smaller creatures

wasp eggs ?

stingers, yes, but more web based creatures

ducklings ?

no. A creature that stings, or pinches

scorpions

I wasn't even close; take another
turn, @hemlokgang.

From Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King:

"She watched me pinch off a small pellet of the _ _ _ _ _ paste."

Seems too obvious, but Iʻll try guessing:

t o o t h

Nope

pasta ?

tomato?

thick?

nope....but pasta and tomato are in the ballpark

spaghetti ?

Nope

Okay...the answer is ................pesto

Someone else care to try one?

"Time and again, Rommelʻs tactically brilliant attacks created
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ unsustainable
situations."

"Rethinking Rommel" by David Zapecki

logistically?

logistically" (270): BINGO!
Please set the NEXT.

(I was reminded of the old (military?) saying:
In speculating on a prospective war, amateurs
talk about STRATEGY; professionals talk
about LOGISTICS).

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