Each of the words below conceals a smaller word, according to a certain pattern. Can you spot the pattern and determine the smaller words?

1. Gypsy

2. Truck

3. Legal

4. Sword

5. Polish

6. Smart

 

Answer:

 

If you drop the first and last letters of each word, the remaining letters - read backward - are valid words:

 

1. Gypsy -spy

2. Truck - cur

3. Legal - age

4. Sword - row

5. Polish - silo

6. Smart - ram

 

Credit:

World of Puzzles

July, 1997

Madeleine Nieleda 

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