MEGA Scavenger Hunt V - January thru June 2022

[Book Concierge]

Well done, Beverly!

[Book Concierge]

Ooops .... Beverly .... for "wave" it needs to be the verb (any tense). Your quote uses the noun.

[Robin P]

I found "doll's house" in a Canadian book. Wikipedia says

English-speakers in North America commonly use the term dollhouse, but in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries the term is doll's house (or, less commonly, dolls' house).

So does this count for dollhouse?

[Book Concierge]

Yes, I will accept the two-word version. I've edited the original post.

[Licha-Olivia]

Challenge completed!!!

[Beverly]

Book Concierge wrote: "Well done, Beverly!"

Whoops is right...I'm sorry, I'll fix that!! :)

[Beverly]

Thanks for the comment on message #35. I have corrected my passage and used the verb form this time!! Now I'm done.

[Book Concierge]

Great work, ladies. I've marked you both finished.

[Donna]

Donna wrote: "CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

***Because I can't follow instructions, I did NOT reserve 2 spaces. My post had room for only 99 words, so the last word I found is below:***

✔Poppycock ~~ [book:Empire of Pai..."
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I have also finished the challenge, and included the missing word on my first post.

[[deleted user]]

I'm done. I didn't find ANTIOXIDANT; HEMOPHILIA; NAMASTE

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[Book Concierge]

Great challenge work, KarenK2. I never close/lock the threads, so feel free to add those words if you come across them later.

[[deleted user]]

Book Concierge wrote: "Great challenge work, KarenK2. I never close/lock the threads, so feel free to add those words if you come across them later."

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[Book Concierge]

I finally finished ...

"Kith and kin" was the one that held me up and I finally found 'Neither kith nor kin'

[Ed]

*****COMPLETED 7/11/24***** Last word="volt"

MEGA Scavenger Hunt V
Begins: 01January22 / Ends: 30June2022
(1/1/22-7/11/24)- 923days; last word="volt";
52 sources; .108wpd; 1.923wps

100/100

Word list

✔adobo-p.162-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"Lillian prepares adobo...without the customary soy sauce..." 1/20/22
✔analysis-p.88-Dead Poets Society-"Hours of boring analysis, dissection, and criticism will see..." 1/5/22
✔antioxidant-p.68- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...a chai latte made from an antioxidant rich native mushroom..."
✔awful-p.226- Jazz-"...sleeve was muscled by field labor, awful thin..." 1/3/22
✔barefoot-"...preacher got his barefoot congregation all excited." 3/13/22
✔bifocals-p.56-The Spy Who Loved Me-"The bifocals registered shock." 1/13/22
✔birdsong-p.14-The Ministry of Flowers-"Those who disregard the warnings of birdsong." 5/30/22
✔Bob Dylan (or just Dylan, IF it refers to the famous musician)-p.94-Unmanned-"Dylan. The Best of the Beatles, The Who? U2. Tom Petty..."7/21/22
✔Broadway-p.144- The Godfather-"...in front of Jack Dempsey's bar on Broadway." 1/9/22
✔chalk-p.87-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...like a chunk of chalk or a solid clump of mustard powder." 1/6/22
✔chemical-p.162-Greenwich Killing Time-"She was a chemical puppet." 4/30/22
✔chopsticks-P.10- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station-"...she given it: gold chopstick letters on dark green construction paper." 1/12/22
✔community-p.43-Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe-"...to get involved with the Women's Community Center..." 3/13/22
✔conjure-p.181-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"And how do you conjure it?" 1/15/22
✔daze-p.33-Harp of Burma-"...and we sat there in a daze." 3/10/22
✔desert-p.86- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"But each spring, this desert region bursts into bloom..." 1/6/22
✔dinosaur-p.144- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...and so they constructed 20-foot (6m) dinosaurs and hippos..." 1/17/22
✔doorbell-p.114- Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death-"There was a ring at the doorbell." 1/13/22
✔dressmaker-p.209-The Godfather-"...her seventeen-year-old daughter, a dressmaker, did the same." 1/10/22
✔dollhouse-p.120-The Summer Friend-"...in the Blue Room, a big wooden dollhouse that nobody..." 8/3/22
✔equivalent-p.178-The Godfather-"...he had given the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts..." 1/9/22
✔eucalyptus-p.123-Harp of Burma-"Hiding behind a large eucalyptus tree, I watched them." 3/12/22
✔expedition-p.93-Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station-"And there is a British weather expedition somewhere..." 1/23/22
✔faint-p.146- Jazz-"...the tree is not the cause of her faint..." 1/2/22
✔fireplace-p.147-Jazz-"...and the fireplace has a heap of ash, but no embers." 1/2/22
✔footnotes-p.70-Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station-"...he's scribbled a footnote explaining the circle..." 1/22/22
✔frock-p.152- Jazz-"...a box and a woman's green frock folded on top..." 1/2/22
✔fumble-p.58-This Way Out-"I somehow fumble for my phone and order an Uber home." 11/3/22
✔gambol-p.57-The Ministry of Flowers-"...these nymphs, who, at night, gambol along our brooks..." 6/2/22
✔giraffe-p.42-I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf-"Go away, giraffes." 3/1/22
✔gourmet-p.17-On Her Majesty's Secret Service-"James Bond was not a gourmet." 9/11/22
✔granite-p.281-The Sirens of Titan-"...it is as durable as granite..." 5/18/22
✔hemophilia-p.66-On Her Majesty's Secret Service-(Brit. spelling)- So is the tendency to haenophilia among descendants of the Bourbons." 9/12/22
✔highlands-p.71-How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals-"Glen Highland Farm Sweet Border Collie Rescue was the obvious place..." 8/9/22
✔hypodermic-p.80-The Long Valley-"...doctor stuck him with a hypodermic..." 12/16/22
✔hunch-p.114-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-"I had a hunch, you know, right from the beginning..." 6/9/22
✔husband-p.138- Jazz-"Nothing on the paper about the husband..." 1/1/22
✔indeed-p.13-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"Harry felt very well groomed indeed." 1/12/22
✔instinct-p221- The Godfather-"And it brought out a professorial instinct in the Don himself..." 1/11/22
✔intimate-p.155-Fairytales for Lost Children-"...something of himself that is more intimate than an expensive bouquet of flowers." 6/7/22
✔isotope-p.272-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...water containing a large amount of the hydrogen isotope deuterium..." 12/23/22
✔jawbone-p.46-In the Orchard, the Swallows-"...kissing me again on my jawbone." 5/25/22
✔jocular-p.266- Under Fire-"...saying, in a jocular tone..." 11/21/22
✔juvenile-p.7- Harp of Burma-"...a now defunct, but then leading juvenile magazine..." 3/9/22
✔ kindle-p.425-The Albigenses, by the Author of 'Bertram' Volume 1-"...but ye will kindle the eternal fire for yourselves..." 5/16/23
✔kith and kin (entire phrase; "kith or kin" also okay))-p.47- A Christmas Carol-"...are strange to us, and all our kith and kin..." 3/20/22
✔labyrinth-p.18-Natural Histories: Stories-"Experts classify them as a labyrinth fish..." 5/2/22
✔lance-p.160-Jazz-"He thought she would be his lance and shield..." 1/2/22
✔lopsided-p.5- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"Silhouetted...was a large, strangely lopsided creature..." 1/11/22
✔lurch-p.193- The Sirens of Titan-"Its lurches were more frequent." 5/18/22
✔mahogany-p.79-The Adventures of China Iron-"...the whole room's dark mahogany panelling..." 7/18/22
✔meek-p.102-The Able McLaughlins-"But that timid, wee body! Meek like!" 4/20/22
✔middle-p;119-Jazz-"...uncles positioning themselves in the middle of the block..." 1/1/22
✔molasses-p.159-The Taker and Other Stories-"...she would bring something, olive oil,... spaghetti, molasses,milk..." 6/12/22
murk- p.212-Leaves of Grass-"Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,..." 6/6/23
✔ namaste-p.14-Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions-"...and say, 'Namaste, life.'" 9/1/23
✔nebula(ae)-p.5-Foucault's Pendulum-"...earth, solar system, nebulae and black holes..." 11/21/22
✔negligee-p.175-Greenwich Killing Time-"...a rather risque, black,see-through-but-you-wish-you-hadn't sort of negligee affair."4/30/22
✔newcomer-p.139- Jazz-"The out-of-state newcomer, rich and headstrong, contented herself..." 1/1/22
✔nugget-p.123-Murder Once Removed-"...when I announced this nugget of information..." 8/25/22
✔ocher-p.51-Fairytales for Lost Children-"Narciso's body was draped in red silk, mine in ochre." (Brit. variation) 5/27/22
✔ostrich-p.195- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...from just about every animal not on the endangered species list: beef, lamb...ostrich, ox, and more." 1/25/22
✔ottoman-p.112- Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...Asitane Restaurant prides itself re-creating Ottoman cuisine." 1/13/22
✔Oxford-p.174-When the Ground Is Hard-"And neither do you, Miss Oxford Dictionary!" 4/10/22
✔pessimism-p.31-Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris-"...and she returned to her practical pessimism." 7/30/22
✔playlist-p.158-Playing with Myself-"...the final song on our ultragay preshow Spotify playlist..." 9/4/22
✔poetry-Kindle loc. 13579= The Vicomte de Bragelonne-"He related, with that poetry,that picturesqueness which..." 4/16/22
✔ poppycock-p.310-Babbitt: The 1922 Sinclair Lewis Classic Satire Novel-"...labor federations and all that poppycock." 8/18/23
✔proximity-p.12- The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey-"...and I felt the proximity of the birthdays forged a bond." 8/10/22
✔quadrangle-p.175-When the Ground Is Hard-"...gather the girls in the quadrangle." 4/10/22
✔quibble-p.269-Clea-"...flutes haunted them with their piercing quibbles." 3/8/22
✔retinue-p.93Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station-"...went off traveling in the west with his retinue..." 1/23/22
✔ricochet(ed)-p.98-Harp of Burma-"I only saw the bullets ricochet off the rock..." 3/11/22
✔rhetorical-p.58-Greenwich Killing Time-"Cooperman's question...was somewhat rhetorical." 4/28/22
✔rocking chair-p.27-Greenwich Killing Time-"The rocking chair belonged to the cat." 4/27/22
✔rustle-p.238- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"Just then, there was a rustle at the window..." 1/17/22
✔sojourn-p.28-Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life-"Kafka, just over fifty years after Thoreau's sojourn, ..." 6/28/22
✔sherry-p.199-Baking Cakes in Kigali-"He certainly won't be crying into his sherry..." 4/25/22
✔soprano-p.90-Playing with Myself-"...plus a few inches and minus a soprano high C..." 9/3/22
✔souvenir-p.4- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"It was not...a souvenir of the car crash..." 1/11/22
✔stock market-p.15-Semiautomatic-"...the stock market is down." 9/6/22
✔taxidermist-p.9-Men Without Women-"...a bull's head, stuffed by a Madrid taxidermist..."6/20/22
✔tongue-p.14-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-"...'you'll keep a civil tongue in your head..."-1/12/22
✔topsy-turvy-p.83-Year of the Monkey-"A blameless bit of topsy-turvy, no doubt, or a kind of homeopathic spell..." 6/27/22
✔transfer-p.139-Territorial Rights-"He was to transfer from a bank in Switzerland..." 3/14/23
✔trapeze-p.143-Clea-"Brother Ass, the diving-board, the trapeze, lie just to the eastward..." 3/4/22
✔unborn-p.50- Strange Fruit & Other Plays-"Sharon Tate, her unborn baby." 1/14/22
✔undertow-p.59-The Taker and Other Stories-"The next day there was an undertow and several people drowned..." 6/5/22
✔vanity-p.118-Fire in the Blood-"His vanity made him close his bedroom door..." 5/20/22
✔venture-p.50-Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe-"But I would venture to say she was still cooking..." 3/14/22
✔viper-disc 8 of audiobook- Circe-"She had nursed a viper." 6/16/22
✔ volt-p.315-Torpedo Juice-"Twelve volts of DC current zapped to..." 7/11/24
✔wave (the verb - any tense accepted)-p.159- Jazz-"When I find it, will it wave to me?" 1/2/22
✔whiff- p.79-Clea-"...and whiffs of baking bread from the bakeries." 3/3/22
✔widower-p.48-The Spy Who Loved Me-"...a doctor from Munich, a widower." 1/12/22
✔wretch-Kindle loc.14321-The Vicomte de Bragelonne-"I am a base wretch!"4/17/22
✔Yiddish-p.11-Playing with Myself-"...Estelle performed in Yiddish theatre..." 9/2/22
✔yoga-p.33- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station-"I haven't managed Yoga for three days..." 1/21/22
✔zone-p.164-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...the city itself became a war zone." 1/21/22
✔zoom-unpaginated- Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale-"Zoom in camera 5, Smithers..." 6/3/22

[Book Concierge]

Excellent scavenging, Ed!