Wordscapes Level 138 Answers

EGO - The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.

GIN - A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

ION - An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.

NOR - Used to introduce a further negative statement.

ORE - Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which (at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction) are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

GONE - Past participle of go.

GRIN - A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

IRON - A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

RING - A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

OGRE - A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.

REIN - A strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.

GONER - Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case.

REIGN - The exercise of sovereign power.

IGNORE - To deliberately pay no attention to.

REGION - Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.