Friday, 24 November 2017

VOCABULARY: words ending in EX

I often play a game as I'm trying to go to sleep in which I try to rhyme words ending in various combinations of letters. For two nights in a row, I was trying to finds words ending in ex and managed to find quite a few. However, I realised that there were plenty more that I was missing so today I determined to discover some more. Here are some of the more common words arranged alphabetically:
A: apex, annex
B: biconvex, biflex (meaning bent in two places) 
C: circumflex, codex, convex, cortex, complex, cybersex 
D: desex, duplex, diplex (pertaining to the simultaneous operation of two radio transmitters or to the simultaneous reception and transmission of radio signals over a single antenna through the use of two frequencies. 
E: the ending itself (ex) seems to be the only known word 
F: flex, fourplex (four family apartment house) 
G: googolplex (a number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol of zeros and expressed as 10^10^100 where a googol is a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10^100). 
H: hex, haruspex (in ancient Rome, one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice). 
I: ibex (any of several wild goats of the genus Capra, inhabiting mountainous regions of Eurasia and North Africa, having long, recurved horns), index, intersex (an individual having reproductive organs or external sexual characteristics of both male and female). 
J: no known words 
K: Kleenex (a brand name for a soft, disposable paper tissue, used especially as a handkerchief). 
L: lex (Latin for law), latex (a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air). 
M: megaplex, multiplex 
N: neocortex 
O: octuplex (presumably an eight family apartment house) 
P: pyrex, perspex, perplex, pontifex (a member of the Pontifical College, which was presided over by a chief priest (Pontifex Maximus)) 
Q: quadplex 
R: rex, retroflex (bent backward) 
S: sex, spandex (a synthetic fibre composed of a long-chain polymer, used chiefly in the manufacture of garments to add elasticity), simplex, subcortex
T: triplex (threefold; triple).  
U: no known words 
V: vertex, vortex, vex
W: no known words 
X:  no known words 
Y: no known words 
Z: no known words 

It's always good to work some of these words into a sentence. For example, I'll vex my ex with a hex.

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