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Rank | Letters | Answer | Clue | |
1 | 99% | 7 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 30% | 5 | Artificial silk | |
3 | 29% | 6 | From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s | |
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We think the answer is "OBELISK" which means:
- noun
- • A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
- • A character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used verb
- • (of a dragonfly) to adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.
An example sentence would be:
- • "The ancient egyptians built towering obelisks as symbols of their power and religious beliefs."
- • "The obelisk in the city center commemorates the founding father of the nation."
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