IC FACTOR VII

Each clue below can be answered with a word ending in IC.

1. Severely mentally ill

2. Devoted to one's country

3. Silly, ridiculous

4. Occurring at set intervals (2)

5. Of a person - Very stiff, cold, and unemotional

6. Artificial body part, a leg

7. Opiate, for one

8. Mutually beneficial relation ship, as in animals

9. Tyrannical

10. Mildly nervous, stressed, anxious, etc.

Answers:

 

1. Psychotic

2. Patriotic

3. Idiotic

4. Periodic/Episodic

5. Robotic

6. Prosthetic

7. Narcotic

8. Symbiotic

9. Despotic

10. Neurotic

IC FACTOR VI

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in IC.

1. Like ancient Egyptian, or totally illegible writing

2. Secluded, self-denying way of living

3. Traveling from place to place

4.Characterized by reversion to something ancestral

5. Puzzling, mysterious, difficult to understand

6. Savage, brutally cruel

7. Baby woe

8. All talk, no action

9. Extremely, irrationally afraid of something

10. Relating to one's cultural and racial background

Answers:

 

1. Hieroglyphic

2. Monastic or Ascetic

3. Peripatetic

4. Atavistic

5. Enigmatic

6. Barbaric

7. Colic

8. Rhetoric

9. Phobic

10. Ethnic

IC FACTOR V

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in IC.

 

1. Relating to the plates in the earth's crust

2. Disdainful, derisive - as a comment

3. Happy, peaceful, and beautiful - as a place

4. Related to generous financial support 

5. Remaining the same, no changes

6. Idealistic, romantic, and unrealistic

7. Foreign, strange, different from the usual

8. Able to understand and share the feelings of another

9. Mesmerizing or sleep-inducing

10. One who neither accepts nor rejects the existence of God

Answers:

 

1. Tectonic

2. Sardonic

3. Idyllic

4. Philanthropic

5. Static

6. Quixotic

7. Exotic

8. Empathetic / (Sympathetic) 

9. Hypnotic

10. Agnostic

IC FACTOR IV 

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in IC.

1. Concerned with and serving others

2. Complete confusion and disorder

3. Like one using very few words

4. Pertaining to the universe

5. Melodramatic, theatrical - as gestures

6. Pompous, grandiloquent - as speech

7. Showing no emotion, accepting whatever happens

8. "Getting it all out" through open expression of your feelings

9. The highest point of tension, most revealing moment

10. Homesick or wistfully thinking about past happiness

 

Answers:

 

1. Altruistic

2. Chaotic

3. Laconic

4. Cosmic

5. Histrionic

6. Bombastic

7. Stoic

8. Cathartic

9. Climactic

10. Nostalgic

 

IC FACTOR III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

 

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in IC.

 

1. Showing off one's knowledge in teaching

2. Shocking and stressful, as an accident

3. Beautiful and peaceful countryside

4. Relating to debate or crime solving

5. Occurring at irregular intervals 

6. Having to do with guns

7. Song-like, emotionally expressive poetry

8. One who sees the worst in everything

9. Friendship not involving romance

10. Poisonous or insidious, as a relationship

Answers:

 

1. Pedantic

2. Traumatic

3. Bucolic or Rustic

4. Forensic

5. Sporadic

6. Ballistic

7. Lyric

8. Cynic

9. Platonic

10. Toxic

IC FACTOR II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

 

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in  IC.

 

1. Empty talk

2. Devilish, evil

3. Pale and weak

4. Huge, tremendous

5. Unconventional, odd 

6. Continuing, on-going

7. A holy or revered object

8. "Restroom" instead of "toilet"

9. Circles with a common center

10. Having a compelling charm that attracts others

11. What an automobile would be in a Shakespeare play

12. Meant for only those with a special knowledge or interest

 

Answers:

 

1. Rhetoric

2. Satanic, diabolic

3. Anemic

4. Gigantic, Titanic

5. Eccentric

6. Chronic

7. Relic

8. Euphemistic

9. Concentric

10. Charismatic

11. Anachronistic

12. Esoteric 

 

IC FACTOR I

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Each clue can be answered by a word ending in IC.

1. Commonplace, dull

2. Memory-aiding device

3. Made up of diverse elements

4. Word or practice no longer in use

5. Opinionated beyond discussion

6. Having human characteristics 

7. Extremely happy (3 words)

8. Bitter and cutting, as words

9. Attacking cherished traditions, beliefs, or rules

10. Man-made, as an imitation of a natural product 

Answers:

 

1. Prosaic

2. Mnemonic

3. Eclectic

4. Archaic

5. Dogmatic

6. Anthropomorphic

7. Ecstatic, Rhapsodic, Euphoric 

8. Caustic

9. Iconoclastic

10. Synthetic