Connections Answers
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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CAPTIVATE
These words all mean to fully capture or keep someone's attention or interest.
Individual words:
•ABSORB: To completely take someone's attention or interest, so they are focused only on one thing. Like a good book can absorb you.
•ENGAGE: To get and keep someone's attention or interest. A good speaker will engage their audience. It means they listen actively.
•HOLD: To keep someone's attention or interest for a period of time. A strong story can hold your attention for hours. It makes you keep watching or listening.
•OCCUPY: To fill or take up someone's thoughts, time, or attention completely. A difficult puzzle can occupy your mind for a long time. You are focused on it.
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SUMMARY
These words all refer to a shorter version of something, presenting the main points or essential information without all the details.
Individual words:
•BRIEF: A short version of something, cutting out unnecessary details. It gives you the main points quickly, often orally or in a short report.
•DIGEST: A shorter version of a longer text, like a book or magazine. It keeps only the most important parts and main ideas for easy understanding, like 'Reader's Digest'.
•OUTLINE: A plan or structure for writing or a speech. It shows the main topics and order using key ideas, not full sentences, for organization.
•REVIEW: A short summary of what was discussed or learned. It helps you remember the main ideas, often at the end of a lesson, meeting, or presentation.
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HALT
These words, when used as verbs, all mean to stop, control, or prevent the progress or flow of something. They are different ways to 'halt' an action or situation.
Individual words:
•CHECK: To stop or slow down the progress of something. For example, 'checking the spread of a disease' means stopping it from spreading further.
•CURB: To control or limit something, often something negative. For instance, 'curbing bad habits' means reducing or stopping them.
•STAUNCH: As a verb, it means to stop or slow the flow of liquid, especially blood, from a wound. Like 'staunching a cut' to stop the bleeding.
•STEM: To stop or hold back something, especially a flow or a negative development. 'Stemming the tide of refugees' means trying to stop their movement.
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ANIMALS MINUS STARTING LETTER
These words are animal names with their first letter removed.
Individual words:
•ANTHER: This is a part of a flower. In this puzzle, add 'P' to the front to get PANTHER, a large wild cat.
•EASEL: This is a stand artists use to hold a painting. In this puzzle, add 'W' to the front to get WEASEL, a small, thin animal.
•HARK: This is an old word meaning 'listen'. In this puzzle, add 'S' to the front to get SHARK, a large fish in the ocean.
•LAMA: This is a spiritual teacher in some Buddhist religions. In this puzzle, add an 'L' to the front to get LLAMA, a furry animal from South America.