Answers for vocab crossword (vocab game 3)

ACROSS 6A:voracious 16A:verity
1B:ewe
5C:intractability
20C:oboe
1D:tab
5E:turbid
13E:niceties
20F:tart 7G:urn
5H:nil
10H:plod 21H:ivy 15I:vagary 2J:vision
7K:tortuous
15L:visage
2M:brunt
10M:bout
15N:tainted
1O:grin
70:vagrant
15P:lucid
2Q:tout
21Q:bag
8R:vacuous
4S:axe
15S:vanquish
11T:maul
1U:invincible
15U:volition

Answers for vocab game 2 (homophones)

Para 1
access
repeated
accept
adept at
averse to
assaying

Para 2
appraised
tenor
alumna
alumnus
allude to
adversely
elude
delude
canon

usage of double conjunction: scarcely...

Does scarcely take a when or before as a double conjunction pair? This is a question posted by Rajhansa Sridhara from the IIT-Powai batch.

As a double conjunction pair scarcely takes a when.But the usage with before is not incorrect.

eg. Scarcely had he reached the mountain top when/before it began to rain.

However the usage of scarcely with than is not acceptable in standard English usage.

I don't know nothing about it.....

This is a question posted by Nikhil Bale from the Dadar evening batch.Is the usage of double negation in the sentence grammatically correct.

As per standard English usage it is incorrect on the grounds of redundancy.The logic being where there is a not we do not require the word nothing.

Though this usage is quite common in movies and novels it would be inappropriate to use this in formal communication.

The correct sentence would be : I know nothing./I don't know anything.

Answers for Vocab game 1 (www.wordoful.com)

Words from the root Mis/Mit (send)

disciple/follower:missionary
aim or task to be performed:mission
projectile:missile
letter or note:missive