1. What do the following words have in common?

MARE

DISH

BASH

TEAK

HAWK

 

2. What do the following words have in common?

 

FIN

DIME

BULL

MOOR 

SHOOT

 

HINTS:

1. It has to do with dropping the first letter of each word.

2. It has to do with words sounding the same - phonetically.

 

Answers:

 

1.  Dropping the first letter of each word and replacing it with SQU gives a new word:

     MARE - SQUARE

     DISH - SQUISH

     BASH - SQUASH

     TEAK - SQUEAK

     HAWK - SQUAWK

 

2. Each word can be precede by PARA to give a new word - phonetically.

    FIN - PARAFIN - PARAFINN 

    DIME - PARADIME - PARADIGM

    BULL - PARABULL - PARABLE

    MOOR - PARAMOOR - PARAMOUR

    SHOOT - PARASHOOT - PARACHUTE