SHORT FORMS
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Apr/May 1989

Stephen Sniderman

The blanks below can be filled with three-letter words to make longer words. In each case, the three-letter word is a slang or informal form of the longer word.

For example, given the clue  _____ITENTIARY, the answer would be PEN - the short form of PENITENTIARY.

1. _______IRE
2. _______MARNE
3. _______EREE
4. _______NASIUM
5. _______OLINE
6. _______ORATORY
7. _______UTANTE
8. _______EDO
9. _______VICT
10. ______ERAN
11. ______OPHONE
12. ______EMATICS

Answers:

1. UMPire
2. SUBmarine
3. REFeree
4. GYMnasium
5. GASoline
6. LABoratory
7. DEButante
8. TUXedo
9. CONvict
10. VETeran
11. SAXophone
12. MATHematics 

NOTE:
See also FOR YOUR _ _ _ _ RMATION posted 4-26-10