| 20 answers for: Marital word from the Latin for "pledged" |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| SPOUSE | Marital word from the Latin for "pledged" |
| IDO | Marital words |
| RUT | Word, from the Latin for "roar" in reference to the clamour of stags when challenging rivals, for the annual mating season of said animals and other ruminant mammalians (3) |
| LETTER | Word, from the Latin for "culture, epistle, learning, literature" and connected to "leather writing material", for any one of the alphabetic characters from A to Z (6) |
| VELARIUM | Word, from the Latin for "covering, curtain, sail, veil", for a large awning used in Roman times, particularly in amphitheatres like the Colosseum (8) |
| SPIRACLE | Word, from the Latin for "breath", for a cartilaginous fish's oxygen inlet, an insect's breathing pore, a tadpole's water inlet or a whale's blowhole, thus a geological vent for exhaling steam (8) |
| THIRST | Word, from the Latin for "to dry, to parch", for a parched longing, whether for water or wisdom (6) |
| ADVENTURER | Word, from the Latin for "a thing about to arrive", for a dare-devil or opportunist in pursuit of a wild exciting enterprise, such as circumnavigating the globe or performing a skydive (10) |
| OPT | Word from the Latin for 'wish for' |
| ROSARY | Word, from the Latin for a garden of floribundas, damasks or other such blooms, for a string of prayer beads (6) |
| CIRRI | Word, from the Latin for "crimped locks of hair, fringes, tendrils, tufts", for clouds of frozen crystals forming feathery, filamentous, tufted or wispy streaks called mares'-tails (5) |
| AFFLATUS | Word, from the Latin for "breathe, to be blown upon", for divine creative inspiration (8) |
| PLUS | Word, from the Latin for "more", for a binary operator that, when joining two and two, results in four (4) |
| FAROUCHE | French word, from the Latin for "outdoors, savage, shy", for one who is lacking in polish, socially awkward or sullenly shy, like an outsider, happiest beneath a wild sky (8) |
| AREA | English word from the Latin for "courtyard" |
| TUBA | Word from the Latin for "trumpet" |
| COLLEGE | Word from the Latin for "community" |
| EASEL | Word from the Latin for "donkey" |
| REMORSE | Word from the Latin for "bite again" |
| TENOR | Word from the Latin for "hold" |
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