Wordscapes Level 3852 Answers

EEL

a snake-like fish with a slender elongated body and poorly developed fins, proverbial for its slipperiness

EWE

a female sheep

EYE

each of a pair of globular organs of sight in the head of humans and vertebrate animals

JEER

make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice

JEWEL

a precious stone, typically a single crystal or piece of a hard lustrous or translucent mineral cut into shape with flat facets or smoothed and polished for use as an ornament

JEWELRY

an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

LEER

look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way

LEERY

cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions

LYRE

a stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa

REEL

wind something on to a reel by turning the reel

RELY

depend on with full trust or confidence

RYE

a cereal plant that tolerates poor soils and low temperatures

WEE

little

WRY

using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour

YEW

a coniferous tree which has red berrylike fruits, and most parts of which are highly poisonous. Yews are linked with folklore and superstition and can live to a great age; the timber is used in cabinetmaking and (formerly) to make longbows