Wordscapes Level 3850 Answers

ATLAS

a book of maps or charts

BALSA

very lightweight wood used chiefly for making models and rafts

BASAL

forming or belonging to a bottom layer or base

BASALT

a dark fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure, typically composed largely of plagioclase with pyroxene and olivine

BAT

an implement with a handle and a solid surface, typically of wood, used for hitting the ball in games such as cricket, baseball, and table tennis

BLAST

a destructive wave of highly compressed air spreading outwards from an explosion

LAST

coming after all others in time or order; final

LAT

the basic monetary unit of Latvia, equal to 100 santims (replaced by the euro in 2014)

SALT

a white crystalline substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food

SAT

(in the UK except Scotland) a test taken by school students as part of the national curriculum

SLAT

a thin, narrow piece of wood, plastic, or metal, especially one of a series which overlap or fit into each other, as in a fence or a Venetian blind

STAB

thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill

TAB

a small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information