Wordscapes Level 1990 Answers

AIM - The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.

MAM - Diminutive of mother.

MIL - An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1/6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1/6000 and 1/6300 are used in other countries.

NIL - Nothing; zero.

AIL - Painful; troublesome.

LAM - Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.

MAIL - To send (a letter or parcel) through the mail.

MAIN - Great in size or degree; vast; strong; powerful; important.

MAMA - Mother, female parent.

NAIL - To drive a nail.

LAIN - Past participle of lie (oriented in a horizontal position, situated).

MANIA - Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

ANIMA - The soul or inner self of a person.

ANIMAL - In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

MAILMAN - Someone (implied male) who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.