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HP Word Puzzle :~, It's quite easy.
rowena r
post Jan 26 2008, 10:13 PM
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Add or take away a letter from each of the following sets of words to make other words, the clues to which are given. And then, put 'em together to get ..... ah, ah ! biggrin.gif

QUESTIONS :

A.
Sip - Marine vessel
Wait - Intelligence
Caper - Short cloak
Spout - Begin to grow
Tall - Correspond

B.
Beak - Shatter
Rooster - List
Bent - Wager
Gin - Profit
Bight - Plant disease
Tend - Five twos.

C.
Thin - A metal
Fire - A conifer
Tick - Hoax
Zoo - Move quickly
Plain - Strategy
Came - Small carved stone
Taunt - Tight
Ram - Quantity of paper

D.
Kind - Young goat
Beard - Poet
Carve - Concern
Wan - Wagon
Sea - Marine mammal
Gloat - Abe's patronus
Prim - Chief

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ANSWERS :

A. Ship, Wit, Cape, Sprout, Tally.

B. Break, Roster, Bet, Gain, Blight, Ten.

C. Tin, Fir, Trick, Zoom, Plan, Cameo, Taut, Ream.

D. Kid, Bard, Care, Wain, Seal, Goat, Prime.

The letters in the 4 sets make up HARRY, RONALD, HERMIONE and NEVILLE.


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post Jan 26 2008, 10:33 PM
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I only missed Ream...and I've never ever heard that word before. I'm a little surprised I did so well on this one since I sucked so much on the last Word Quiz...but, why talk about that? I only missed ONE!!!!


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post Jan 26 2008, 10:43 PM
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I got 'em all--must have a little bit of a Ravenclaw tendency!


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post Jan 26 2008, 11:26 PM
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I missed two, tally and ream. That was much fun. Thank you.


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These are so much fun. thumbup.gif

missed only 1


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very fun. but wayy too intellectual for my tiny brain =D sigh*


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I got the first two but not the last ones. It was quite hard though! xxx


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I was really poor at this. Well I am from Macedonia so most of the words I have heard just now for the first time. I got only 9 correct.i know that I am a troll smile.gif but I didn't know most of the words.


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