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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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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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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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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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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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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