DROP A LETTER - GET A NEW WORD I

FAMILY REUNIONS
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
December, 2014
Stanley Newman

If you drop one letter from each word in the groups below and then re-arrange the remaining letters, all the words in each group will have something in common. Can you re-unite each "family" by unscrambling the entries and determining the category for each group.

For example, given the group HAUNT, HAIRDO, ADVANCE, you could drop the N from HAUNT, the R from HAIRDO, and the C from ADVANCE, to get UTAH, IDAHO, NEVADA - all in the category "U.S. states."

Family One
1. FLOUR
2. BOULDER
3. BRISKET
4. GLISTEN
5. REPTILE
6. ABSINTHE
7. UNDERGROW
8. DELIVERING

Family Two
1. CLAIM
2. LATCH
3. TASSEL
4. BALMIER
5. TAPERING
6. EMOLLIENTS

Family Three
1. ROTATION
2. ONRUSH
3. EIDER
4. CROUPIERS
5. MACHINING

HINTS:

Letters to be dropped:

Family One:

1. R

2. R

3. B

Family Two:

1. L

2. H 

Family Three

1. T

Answers:

Family One - Baseball terms
1. FOUL
2. DOUBLE
3. STRIKE
4. SINGLE
5. TRIPLE
6. BASE HIT
7. GROUNDER
8. LINE DRIVE

Family Two - Rocks and Minerals
1. MICA
2. TALC
3. SLATE
4. MARBLE
5. GRANITE
6. LIMESTONE

Family Three - Great Lakes 
1. ONTARIO
2. HURON
3. ERIE
4. SUPERIOR
5. MICHIGAN