Tuesday, May 3, 2011

MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL IV
Credit: GAMES Magazine
Stephen Sniderman (adapted)

EPICLEAVE looks like a nonsense word, but if you see it as epicLEAVE, and change LEAVE to ENTER, you get epicENTER (EPICENTER), a perfectly good word. In each clue below, a real word is hidden in the nonsense word. Find that word and trade it for its opposite to make a new word. UNDERSIT?

1. PASTOPDA
2. BONICE
3. CARTWTOE
4. MIMILAUGH
5. EYESUGH
6. SCONUT
7. COUNTERONER
8. VERMFIRELLI
9. PLOWERWORTHY
10. COTHEMIN

Answers:

1. PAGODA
2. BONFIRE
3. CARTWHEEL
4. MIMICRY
5. ENOUGH
6. SPROUT
7. COUNTEROFFER
8. VERMICELLI
9. PRAISEWORTHY
10. COUSIN

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