Select Meaning by Word # 2 - Answers - August 3, 2009

1. n. breaking up; downfall

2. v. burn with hot iron or caustic

3. n. minor quarrel; bickering

4. adj. like a fox; crafty

5. v. sleep throughout the winter

6. n. opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed

7. adj. pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores

8. n. proverb; a truth pithily stated

9. adj. short-lived; fleeting

10. adj. capable of being repaired