It Pays To Increase Your Word Power is a series of Mystery placements, influenced by Peter Funk's monthly feature in the Reader's Digest magazines which appears under the same name.
Many fondly remember the 20 words with several definitions alongside, and the linguistic tantrums in trying to determine the closest meaning before referring to the correct answers at the bottom of the page, or at the back of the magazine.
The cache can be found at the published coordinates. The Mystery classification serves only to test your understanding of the meaning of the word.
As it was back in the days of the monthly printed publication of the Reader's Digest. All hints and ratings refer to the physical cache alone. Using the checker requires entering a; b; c; or d.
Further insight toward the word might be revealed in the correct checker entry.
The word of this cache is APLOMB (noun) [ uh - plom ; uh - pluhm ]
Is it :
a) Imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
b) Polite summary of a stand-up comic's failure to engage with the audience.
c) Colloquial term for bombs that struck water during Battle of Britain during WW2.
d) Derisive term for trees that fail to produce fruit; unfertilised or sterile.
(ref:www.dictionary.com)
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