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Word Watching answers: June 25, 2005

UNWORD (b) To deprive of words. To make speechless.

ACHTANDE (a) Eighth. Adaptation of the Old Norse. 1400: “And all the Earth the achtande day/ Shall stir . . . and quake and all folk slay.”

VARROA (b) A small mite, Varroa jacobsoni, which is a fatal parasite of the honeybee in the Far East, and has spread to other parts.

BARDY (b) An edible Australian wood-boring grub (Bardistus cibarius). Used locally in “Starve the bardies!”, an exclamation of surprise.