Monday, October 3, 2011

ANAGRAMS VI

1. What common verb's past tense is an anagram of its present tense?
2. Can you think of two anagrams that can both be preceded by OB to make two new words?

3. Can you think of two cities whose names are anagrams. One is the current capital of a country, and the other was a former capital of that country.

4. Two seven-letter anagrams will complete the following sentence:

His office job was so _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that he longed to be able to work _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

HINTS:
1. The word has only three letters.
2. A third anagram is SEVER.
3. The country is Japan.
4. The first letters of the two words are T and O.

Answers:

1. ATE and EAT
2. SERVE and VERSE (OBSERVE/OBVERSE)
3. TOKYO/KYOTO
4. TEDIOUS/OUTSIDE

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