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If you have ever played the "dictionary game" that people sometimes play at parties, you might enjoy this one. In creating the anagrams game I encountered a lot of words that I had never seen before. (There are a lot of words in the English language! I probably didn't recognize 1 out of 5 of the words that I got in a list of 200,000+ English words I downloaded from the internet.) Here are some of those words that I thought were kind of nice-sounding or otherwise interesting. I am guessing that you won't recognize them either. Try your luck at guessing the definitions of these words. For each one, can you pick the correct definition from the other three false definitions that I made up? I tried to make my definitions sound "dictionaryish" (well, most of them), so let's see if I can fool you.


Word: Eyestring

1. A string used by some masons or other tradespeople to help maintain straight lines

2. String a magician pulls out of his eye

3. The tendon by which the eye is moved

4. A theory postulated by physicist Max Plank in the early 20th Century, which views matter as composed of single-faceted fractal particles and which helped lead to the concept of string theory