Tuesday, November 23, 2010

JUST ONE LETTER

1. A common six-letter word becomes a number when its first letter is deleted. What is the word and the number?

2. Two five-letter words differ only by their last letter, and both mean to wake up or to wake someone up.

3. Two words differ by one letter. One is a part of the mouth. The other is used in writing.

4. Two words, usually associated with happiness and family love, become words associated with tragedy and death by adding the same letter to the beginning of the first two words.

HINT:
4. The added letter is "s".

Answers:

1. height/eight
2. rouse/roust
3. velum/vellum
4. laughter/mother - slaughter/smother

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