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Meaning of Verbarium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm

Definitions

A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.

dated, uncountable

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Examples

“We have played Verbarium with great pleasure, dividing the company into two sections or sides.”
“[…] next she would play euchre twenty minutes; next it would be a game of verbarium, and so on all the day long—twenty minutes to each fleeting interest, with twenty minutes of billiards sandwiched between every two of them.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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