Wordscapes Level 1508 Answers

FIG - A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

FIN - One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.

FIR - A conifer of the genus Abies.

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.

RIG - The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.

IRE - Iron.

REF - Referee.

FEN - A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.

FERN - Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta (formerly known by some as Filicophyta) that lacks seeds and reproduces by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

FINE - Of superior quality.

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

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

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

FINER - Comparative form of fine: more fine.

GRIEF - Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.

INFER - To show; to manifest; to prove.

REIGN - The exercise of sovereign power.

FEIGN - To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.

FINGER - One of the long extremities of the hand, sometimes excluding the thumb.

FRINGE - Outside the mainstream.