LETTER BANK V

REVERSE LETTER BANKS

In a letter bank, the letters of one word are used - and repeated as necessary - to spell a longer word or phrase. For example, IMPS is a word bank for MISSISSIPPI. In this puzzle, you are given the longer word or phrase and asked to find its letter bank - that is a shorter word in which every letter of the longer  word or phrase is used at least once.

1. DECADE
2. MEDDLESOME
3. SEAMSTRESS
4. VERTEBRATES
5. RECALCITRANT
6. SUPERHEROES (name from mythology)
7. THE METRIC SYSTEM

Answers:

1. ACED
2. SELDOM
3. MASTER
4. BRAVEST
5. CLARINET
6. ORPHEUS
7. CHEMISTRY

Credits: All - The Enigma
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