OLD WORDS

Can you think of an old word that was commonly used for the modern-day terms below?

1. Cat

2. Food

3. Actor

4. Suitor

5. Forest

6. Farmer

7. Jewelry

8. Meadow

9. Clothing

10. Pharmacist   

11. Steam engine

12. By the name of 

13. Boastful coward

14. An alarm or signal 

15. Unscrupulous lawyer

16. A nosy, gossipy person 

 

Answers:

 

1. Grimalkin

2. Aliment

3. Mummer

4. Swain

5. Taiga

6. Husbandman 

7. Bijoux

8. Glebe

9. Habiliment

10. Apothecary

11. Iron horse

12. Yclept

13. Scaramouche

14. Tocsin

15. Pettifogger

16. Quidnunc