Title: Rearrange the letters of the word ocean to form the name of a boat not often found on the ocean.
1Rearrange the letters of the word ocean to form
the name of a boat not often found on the ocean.
canoe
2If you begin with this five-letter word, you can
form a homonym by removing just the first letter.
You can form another homonym by removing just the
second letter. Whats the word?
scent
3Make one word out of the phrase, new door.
4Make one word out of the phrase, new door.
one word
5What do the names Bob, Otto, Eve, Hannah, and
Anna have in common?
They are palindromes.
6What is the only word with three double letters
in a row?
bookkeeper
7What is the only word in which all five vowel
letters appear in alphabetical order?
facetious
8What two homonyms are also antonyms? One means
to build up. The other means to tear down.
raise raze
9What delicious thing do all of these words
share? beggar, coats, windjammer, hammer,
appease, spear, plumber, caprice, tease, scream
10What delicious thing do all of these words
share? beggar, coats, windjammer, hammer,
appease, spear, plumber, caprice, tease, scream
11What orderly feature do all of these words
share? almost, bent, fir, clot, fez, hut
The letters of each word are in alphabetical
order.
12What is so unusual about the words in this
sentence? I do not know every single British
novelist currently publishing undebatable
masterpieces.
Each word contains one additional letter.
13What is so unusual about the words in this
paragraph? This is an unusual paragraph in an
important way. It conforms to our notions of
grammar and syntax, but its words vary from
typical options. Can you say how?
The letter e is not used.
14What three words begin with the letters su but
sound as though they begin with sh?
15What three words begin with the letters su but
sound as though they begin with sh?
sugar sure sumac
16What is so unusual about the words sanction,
dust, bill, cleave, clip, fast, hold up, lease,
screen, seed, temper, left?
17What is so unusual about the words sanction,
dust, bill, cleave, clip, fast, hold up, lease,
screen, seed, temper, left?
autoantonyms (contranyms)
18Can you find the hidden word?
19Tommys mother has three children, represented by
these coins. One is named Penny, and another is
named Nicole. What is the third childs name?
The third child is Tommy!