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[Jun. 5th, 2006|02:35 pm]
Nicodemus
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This is based on the NPR Sunday Puzzler from a week or so ago. I took it a step further, to really strain your word-wrangling skills.
Below are pairs of words. For each word, change one letter to any other letter. The resultant new words are synonyms (or nearly so). What are the new pairs of words?
Example: "shim, then" becomes "slim, thin"
- woolen, limbered
- coax, fame
- mullion, golf
- deduce, lesson
- switch, simple
- burst, charmed
- crowned, rustling
- tough, blanch
- massive, massage
- hero, pull
- rusted, tasty
- hammer, inhabit
Word sets are roughly ordered by difficulty, though I have a hard time judging how tricky these will be. Have fun!
EDIT: I'll post a list of answers tomorrow, behind a cut tag. No need to post your answers here -- I trust ya. |
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