NOTE FROM CHRISTA: Word Game Wednesday bumped to Thursday. Son’s birthday yesterday trumped!

A Stampede of Carniverbs

Provide the animal-verb which best matches the definition of each of the following. Some animals/verbs are used twice. Good luck! Don’t louse up! Thanks to Rex Stocklin for helping to corral some of the beasts…The number refers to the number of letters in the word.

1. to score two under-par on a golf hole [5]
2. to outwit by cunning [3]
3. complain [6]
4. to defraud by cheating or swindling [4]
5. to strike with great force; move quickly [3]
6. to advance a baserunner [3]
7. to harass or annoy persistently [6]
8. to offer for sale by calling out in the street [4]
9. show off [7]
10. to give way; falter; recoil in fear [5]
11. to become silent [4 + up]
12. to give birth to; to produce as yield [4]
13. to extend like the spokes of a bicycle wheel [3]
14. equivocate; to evade an obligation [6 + out]
15. to chatter [3]
16. engage in sycophancy [4 + y]
17. to show affection; to court favor by flattery [4]
18. to eat greedily; devour [4]
19. to eat greedily [3 + out]
20. to stand or move with legs and arms extended [spread + 5]
21. to foul up; snarl [5 + up]
22. deceive; take advantage of [4]
23. spy on [4]
24. to store away for future use [8 + away]
25. to make secure against leakage or passage [4]

Word games will be provided with the generous permission of Adrian Hoad-Reddick who granted me permission to use games from his extensive website hoadworks, inc. Here is some info about this amazing word-wizard from his site:

What happens when you combine a word junkie with a computer enthusiast? You get Adrian Hoad-Reddick. Adrian is a teacher, webmaster, writer, radio host, the owner of his own Internet consulting company and the creator of several interactive websites that promote reading and writing, including an online school for aspiring writers. Beyond all this, his passion for the written word is evident in his infectious sense of humour.

Adrian received a Master of Education degree specializing in Computer Applications in Education from the University of Toronto (OISE) and he has had over twenty years of teaching experience in four independent schools. Adrian is currently Director of Academics and Linamar Chair of Project Development at an independent school in the heart of Canada’s Technology Triangle; however, these are only a few of the many roles that keep this industrious creator busy.

Adrian loves to write and to inspire young writers. He enjoys writing poetry, e.e. cummings being one of his favourite poets. “I sit down to write prose and poetry comes out,” he says wryly.

The Poem Repair Shop is the title of his novel-in-progress. It is set in Elora (or its fictional equivalent) and chronicles the story of a bookstore and its three owners. Poemrepairshop.com is also the online headquarters for Adrian’s creative writing course at St. John’s-Kilmarnock School. Adrian is committed to promoting creativity and literacy and this is one of the ways in which he encourages young people to engage in writing. Adrian also hosts a weekly live literary radio show with his students, named–you guessed it– The Poem Repair Shop. Tune in Thursday nights at 9 on CFRU 93.3 Guelph or via web at cfru.ca. Adrian is creative consultant to What If? Canada’s Creativity Magazine for Teens.

Adrian is the creator of Bookhooks.com. This website aspires to be the best online bookreporting website in the world! The site, which is ad-free, is supported by the Canadian publishers Orca Books, Maple Tree Press and Raincoast Books and it strives to promote Canadian authors and books. “It is a free book report tool kit that gives students from K-12 the opportunity to publish their own literary commentary,” according to Adrian. Bookhooks.com has received over 5600 book reviews from children all over the world, including Australia and Israel, over thirty states in the U.S., and from across Canada.