BETWIXT AND BETWEEN I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
April, 2009

The five pairs of words below are each separated by a group of blanks. For each, fill in the blanks with a word that falls between the other two words alphabetically. No answer word is an inflected form of one of  the given words, and proper nouns and plurals are not allowed. The number of blanks indicates the number of letters in the missing word.

1)
EMBANKMENT
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
EMBARK

2)
 JUNGLE
_ _ _ _ _ _
JUNIPER

3)
SPROCKET
_ _ _ _ _ _
SPRUCE

4)
VEGETATION
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
VEHICLE

5)
WHIM
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
WHIMSICAL

Answers:

1. EMBARGO
2. JUNIOR
3. SPROUT
4. VEHEMENT
5. WHIMPER