HOMOGRAPHS CII

What single word satisfies both or all of the meanings?

1. Direct

    Poker hand

 

2. Knobby, rough, twisted

    Dangerous, challenging, cool (informal)

 

3. Sticky

    In poor taste, low quality, cheap

 

4. An English layered dessert

   Something of little value or importance

 

5.  Cause pain

     Fashionable 

6. The largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon

    Wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains

 

7. Of a tree, missing branches through age and decay

    Moved in a feeble, unsteady way - due to advanced age

 

8. Increase in size

    Billowing wave

    Cat's pajamas,  Bee's knees

 

9. News office

    Chest of drawers

    

10. Math symbol indicating a square root

    Wanting extreme or very progressive change, as in politics or social issues 

 

Answers:

 

1. STRAIGHT

2. GNARLY

3. TACKY

4. TRIFLE

5. SMART

6. CHINOOK

7. DODDERED

8. SWELL

9. BUREAU

10. RADICAL 

Credits:

9-10: Mike Nothnagel