Wednesday, March 25, 2009

TAKE IT OFF - PUT IT ON

The definitions below correspond to words which differ only by their initial letter. Either the first or the second word may have the extra letter. For example: scarce/enthusiastic................
meager/eager.

1. a sign/female adults
2. sleep/wood
3. use your ears/shine
4. comfort/stop
5. scarcity/a planet
6. ha ha ha/massacre
7. in an unadorned way/suggest subtly
8. female parent/suffocate
9. shelter for a ship/a tree shelter
10. angry/seafaring bad guy
11. trees/charity
12. long for/work for
13. nag continuously/pointed
14. a flower/Valentino, for one
15. ascend/bough
16. unimportant matter/a weapon
17. grimace/monk's hood
18. an explanation/betrayal of your country
19. rip/style
20. a directon/toward the back of the boat

Answers:

1. omen/women
2. slumber/lumber
3. listen/glisten
4. ease/cease
5. dearth/earth
6. laughter/slaughter
7. simply/imply
8. mother/smother
9. harbor/arbor
10. irate/pirate
11. palms/alms
12. yearn/earn
13. harp/sharp
14. clover/lover
15. climb/limb
16. trifle/rifle
17. scowl/cowl
18. reason/treason
19. rend/trend
20. eastern/astern







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