TRIM AND FIT VIII

GAMES Magazine

June, 2000

Stephen Sniderman

 

Choose a word from the left hand column and trim one, two, or three consecutive letters from the front or back (but not both). Then, without changing the order of the letters, fit a word from the right-hand column between two of the remaining letters to get a new, longer word. 

 

For examples, see TRIM AND FIT I - posted December 15, 2023.

 

1. AORTIC             OLDER

2. REVERE            LESTER

3. SINGE                DEN

4. SCHOOL            DISCO

5. INCITING          HOPED 

Answers:

New word in capital letters, inserted word in ( ), dropped letters in lower case 

 

1. aORT(HOPED)IC

2. RE(DISCO)VERe

3. S(OLDER)INGe

4. sCHO(LESTER)OL

5. INCI(DEN)Ting