1. Making the same change to each of the following words will yield six new words:

BLEND

BLOWN

GRAPE

PLATE

STEEL

PRONE

2. What do the following words have in common?

ABALONE

OVERWEIGHT

CANINE

OFTEN

HINT:

1. The change involves shortening the words.

Answers:

1. Dropping the first two letters of each word gives six new words.

2. Each word ends in a number:

abalONE / overwEIGHT / caNINE / ofTEN