The Overlake Hoot

In quick definitions, participants are given up to 5 seconds to define a list of words. This week’s contestant, junior Nick Diaconu, battled against his desire to make “quick definitions” into “quick associations”. Did he succeed? We’ll let you be the judge of that.

J: “Are You Ready?”

N: “Let’s do this!”

1. January – “first”
2. Asparugus – “mhhh. Asparagus. Mhhh oh”
3. Flagrant – “foul”
4. Jumbo – “tron”
5. Prematuration – “post”
6. Quaffed – “hair”
7. Pickle – “rick”
8. Fuggetaboutit – “I’m walking here”
9. Five – “four”
10. Imp – “small”
11. Modern – “man”
12. Dappling – “me”

J: “this is not a word association game.”

N: “Got it.”

1. Lactose – “intolerant”
2. Cheese – “yummy”
3. Cow – “having one”
4. Pow – “when you get hit really hard”
5. Tick – “a thing that go on dogs”
6. Manhole – “something you should look out for”
7. Colon – “something you need to get checked out”
8. Semicolon – “when you get half of it checked out but then a fire drill starts”
9. Pen – “writing”
10. Four – “five”
11. Sill – “that thing by a window”

Post game thoughts from Nick:

“I lost the fact that I was supposed to be defining words very quickly”

Despite his confusion, Nick ate up this vocab like a yummy burger with extra Pickle Rick!