Sunday, February 12, 2012

To Make Famous for Ever

In the circles below, put the following letters to form a verb that means "to make famous for ever"!








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ANSWER:


Eternalize
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Word Scamble Puzzle

Solve the Word Scramble Puzzle that follows!

1. A strip or ridge of rocks, sand or coral near the surface of a body of water: eref

2. A guiding principle or procedure considered expedient, prudent or advantageous: lpcioy

3. Almost exact or correct: poaparxemti

4. Struck with great surprise and emotional disturbance: chsdeko

5. Something that furnishes proof : edevniec

6. One that gives evidence: ntssiwe

7. To have necessary or fitting qualifications (two words): aseremu pu

8. A conspicuous object serving as a guide: rkma

9. Regrettable or infelicitous: turofantneu

10. An unforeseen event or circumstance : dcitcnea

11. An act that damages: uijnry

12. Inferior in importance: irnmo

13. Unquestionably: ultesbaoyl

14. To advise or counsel: nmcredmoe

15. A general physical examination: pckecuh

16. An arrangement to meet a person or be at a place at a certain time: piapeontmnt

17. Accurately: xealcyt

18. To represent in words : ecdbsire

19. Occur: aephpn

20. In the direction of: saotwdr




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ANSWER:


1. A strip or ridge of rocks, sand or coral near the surface of a body of water: reef


2. A guiding principle or procedure considered expedient, prudent or advantageous: policy


3. Almost exact or correct: approximate


4. Struck with great surprise and emotional disturbance: shocked


5. Something that furnishes proof: evidence


6. One that gives evidence: witness


7. To have necessary or fitting qualifications: measure up


8. A conspicuous object serving as a guide: mark


9. Regrettable or infelicitous: unfortunate


10. An unforeseen event or circumstance : accident


11. An act that damages: injury


12. Inferior in importance: minor


13. Unquestionably: absolutely


14. To advise or counsel: recommend


15. A general physical examination: checkup


16. An arrangement to meet a person or be at a place at a certain time: appointment


17. Accurately: exactly


18. To represent in words : describe


19. Occur: happen


20. In the direction of: towards
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Form 5 Words Related to Aircraft

Reposition the following letters to form 5 words related to aircraft.





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ANSWER:


a) AIRFOIL
b) ALTIMETER
c) PAYLOAD
d) AILERON
e) QUADRIPLANE
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Form Five 5-Letter Words

Place the following 15 letters in the star to form five 5-letter words all starting with S!









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ANSWER: 

Scorn
•Salvo
•Salve
•Scope
•Seize
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Find a 12-letter English Word


In the following puzzle, starting from any circle, trace out a twelve letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.







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ANSWER: 


Bacteriology
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Fitting Word


Find a word that fits in front of all the following endings:

  • COCK
  • BUCKLE 
  • TABLE
  • STILE
  • COAT 




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ANSWER: 


Turn


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Friday, January 27, 2012

Make New Words

Find one letter in each word below that can be changed to another letter in order to make a new word!


  • cheater
  • shock
  • shore
  • chore
  • maker





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ANSWER: 



theater
shack
share
chare (a narrow street)
mazer
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XOP

What common English word does contain XOP?






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ANSWER: Saxophone

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Opposite in Meaning

Which word in brackets is opposite in meaning to the word in capitals?


PETTY (trivial, matter, important, nonsignificant, rotator)





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ANSWER: important

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Limestone to Marble

Limestone is to Marble as Quartz is to ... .

a) Soil
b) Cave
c) Carbon
d) Granite


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ANSWER: d.

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What Single Word

In what single word can you find the following items?

   1. Navigational instrument for finding directions
   2. A complementary ticket
   3. A flower
   4. The capital of Italy
   5. More than one mouse





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ANSWER: Microprocessor   1. Navigational instrument for finding directions: Compass
   2. A complementary ticket: Pass
   3. A flower: Rose
   4. The capital of Italy: Rome
   5. More than one mouse: Mice
Microprocessor includes the letters required to make the above items.
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Plant to Seed (easy)

Plant is to Seed as Wine is to ... .

a) Beverage

b) Grape

c) Drunk

d) Soil



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ANSWER: b.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

3 Missing Letters

What is the following English word?






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ANSWER: Weltschmerz (melancholy at the evils of the world)

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Complete a Word!

Fill in a letter to complete a 12-letter word reading either clockwise or counterclockwise. What is this 12-letter word?





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ANSWER: Correlatable (what can be correlated; e.g., correlatable phenomena).
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Word Ladder: Chase to Catch!

In this word ladder, you should start from Chase and end to Catch by adding 8 words in between!

Note: A Word Ladder is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, where at each step the words differ by altering a single letter [for more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder].









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 ANSWER: 
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Find a 14-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, as in the two previous posts (1, 2), starting from any letter, trace out a 14-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.









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 ANSWER: Dissymmetrical
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Find a 13-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, as in the previous post, starting from any letter, trace out a 13-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.









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 ANSWER: Breaststroker
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Find a 12-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, starting from any letter, trace out a 12-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.


Find a 12-letter English Word






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 ANSWER: Tastefulness
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