THE WAY IT IS III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Specialized Vocabulary 

The answer to each clue will be a word ending in IS.

1. Germany and its allies in World War II

2. The King

3. Raised platform

4. Secretary, formerly

5. Sponsorship or protection 

6. Jewish circumcision ceremony

7. Pride or arrogance leading to a fall

8. Inability to move all or part of the body

9. Dormant metamorphic state of a caterpillar, transitional state

Answers:

 

1. Axis

2. Elvis

3. Dais

4. Amanuensis

5. Aegis

6. Bris

7. Hubris

8. Paralysis

9. Chrysalis