Saturday, May 7, 2011

MORE CHANGE A LETTER
Will Rogers, Jr. in Coronet
July, 1956

In the list below, find a synonym for the first word. Then change a letter to get a synonym for the second word. Change a letter in that word to get a synonym for the third word.

1. Declare, a fixed gaze, a trap
2. Subject, poisonous, medicinal drink
3. Bad weather, a tale, long-legged bird
4. A swarm, cowboy's best friend, domicile
5. Analyze grammatically, pouch for money, a throb
6. High river bank, bar for moving a weight, Romeo
7. Felony, sound of a bell, to reprimand
8. Selected, make the bed, for one, musical term
9. Desist, pursue, huge gap
10. To imagine, to fear, to trample
11. To vote into office, to build, to expel
12. To gamble, common liquid, a kind of cookie
13. Kind of rock, to ascend, not fresh

Answers:

1. State, stare, snare
2. Topic, toxic, tonic
3. Storm, story, stork
4. horde, horse, house
5. Parse, purse, pulse
6. Levee, lever, lover
7. Crime, chime, chide
8. Chose, chore, chord
9. Cease, chase, chasm
10. Dream, dread, tread
11. Elect, erect, eject
12. Wager, water, wafer
13. Shale, scale, stale


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