| Learning by repetition |
ROTE |
| Look hard at the nobleman |
PEER |
| Military gesture |
SALUTE |
| Mythological king who killed his father and married his mother |
OEDIPUS |
| Nocturnal birds |
OWLS |
| Not liable to mistake |
UNERRING |
| One is absent from school without permission |
TRUANT |
| One suffers from adverse circumstances |
VICTIM |
| The British statesman was an ideal sir |
DISRAELI |
| The gradual wearing away by weather |
EROSION |
| Thieving bird |
JACKDAW |
| Traditional knowledge |
LORE |
| Traffic snarl-up |
GRIDLOCK |
| Two Gentlemen of ... (Shakespeare) |
VERONA |
| Type of brown sugar |
DEMERARA |
| Withstood |
RESISTED |