LETTER PATTERNS XIV

 

Each set of clues can be answered with words which end in the same letter pattern. 

1)

Flirt

Gambling game

Brief description

Profile drawing

2)

Altar boy

Very learned

Beginner

Try to convert

 

3)

Slander, defame

Deserved, as punishment

Entrust to care of another

Kind, not malignant

 

4)

Next to

Satisfied

Emerging

Reserved in speech

 

5)

Total pretense intended to deceive

Roofed passageway with shops

Traitor, apostate, rebel

Great praise

 

Answers:

 

1)

Coquette

Roulette

Vignette

Silhouette

 

2)

Acolyte

Erudite

Neophyte

Proselyte

 

3)

Malign

Condign

Consign

Benign

 

4)

Adjacent 

Complacent

Nascent

Reticent 

5)

Charade

Arcade

Renegade

Accolade