PRO AND CON II
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Feb. 1999
Thomas Parker

The words in GROUP A all have synonyms or near-synonyms that begin with PRO. The GROUP B word synonyms all start with CON. If you discount their respective PRO and CON prefixes, every GROUP A answer has a mate in GROUP B that shares all of its letters except one. For example, DIETARY NEED in GROUP A can be answered with a synonym - PROTEIN.  In GROUP B, EMBODY can be answered with CONTAIN. Dropping the prefixes, TEIN and TAIN differ by only one letter. Can you match up the words from the two groups?

GROUP A                                 GROUP B
DIETARY NEED                      STYMIE
BREADWINNER                     COME CLEAN
RATIO                                       EMBODY
GUARD                                     BRUISE
ABUNDANCE                          SUCCINCT
ADVANCE (as a theory)           DEEM
PLEDGE                                    LINK                   
DEVELOP (as film)                  "PRETZEL" POSE

Answers:

GROUP A - SYNONYMS      GROUP B - SYNONYMS
PROTEIN                                CONFOUND
PROVIDER                             CONFESS
PROPORTION                        CONTAIN
PROTECT                                CONTUSION
PROFUSION                            CONCISE
PROPOUND                             CONSIDER
PROMISE                                 CONNECT
PROCESS                                 CONTORTION

MATCHES
proTEIN - conTAIN
proVIDER - conSIDER
proPORTION - conTORTION
proTECT - conNECT
pro FUSION - conTUSION
proPOUND - conFOUND
proMISE - conCISE
proCESS - conFESS