Posted By: Pandora
Cross-offs - 01/18/17 06:40 PM
Cross off the words in the list below according to the instructions given. Rearrange the remaining words to form a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote should be posted as the last answer.
**One answer per solver, please, for the first 24 hours.**
Word list:
ALONE, BLOSSOM, BUOYANT, CAMEO, CARAVAN, CAULIFLOWER, CRABCAKE, CRESCENT, ELBOW, EVERY, FAVORITE, FURLOUGH, GRUESOME, GUARDHOUSE, HOMEOWNING, ICEBOX, INTERSECT, IS, MAN, NOMINATES, SINCERE, SPONGE, SPOTLIGHT, UNDERWAY, WIZARD
-1. an anagram of a 5-letter word appearing in the instructions above
-2. consists of six letters in reverse alphabetical order
-3. is Pig Latin for a word meaning "marvel"
-4. spells a synonym of itself if its doubled letter is deleted
-5. consists entirely of capital letters that have a horizontal line of symmetry
-6. contains all five vowels exactly once
-7. spells a new word when all of its C's are removed
-8. is an anagram of a U.S. state
-9. would spell itself backward if its letters were alphabetically reflected (A to Z, B to Y, etc.)
-10. would become a new compound word if you interchanged its second and fourth letters
-11. consists of a noise an animal makes inside a word meaning "sharpening"
-12. alternates between even and odd letters of the alphabet, starting with an even one
-13. could represent the word CRYPTOGRAM in a cryptogram
-14. completes this sentence in a punny way: "The cornstalks ___ 10 inches after the heavy rainfall"
-15. would become a new verb if J were substituted for one of its letters
-16. would leave two types of motor vehicles if you deleted its middle letter
-17. contains, consecutively, three consecutive letter of the alphabet in proper alphabetical order
-18. changes from three syllables to one if its last letter is deleted
-19. sounds like a type of shoe when its two syllables are switched
-20. spells an object it describes if you read only the odd letters of the original word
**One answer per solver, please, for the first 24 hours.**
Word list:
ALONE, BLOSSOM, BUOYANT, CAMEO, CARAVAN, CAULIFLOWER, CRABCAKE, CRESCENT, ELBOW, EVERY, FAVORITE, FURLOUGH, GRUESOME, GUARDHOUSE, HOMEOWNING, ICEBOX, INTERSECT, IS, MAN, NOMINATES, SINCERE, SPONGE, SPOTLIGHT, UNDERWAY, WIZARD
-1. an anagram of a 5-letter word appearing in the instructions above
-2. consists of six letters in reverse alphabetical order
-3. is Pig Latin for a word meaning "marvel"
-4. spells a synonym of itself if its doubled letter is deleted
-5. consists entirely of capital letters that have a horizontal line of symmetry
-6. contains all five vowels exactly once
-7. spells a new word when all of its C's are removed
-8. is an anagram of a U.S. state
-9. would spell itself backward if its letters were alphabetically reflected (A to Z, B to Y, etc.)
-10. would become a new compound word if you interchanged its second and fourth letters
-11. consists of a noise an animal makes inside a word meaning "sharpening"
-12. alternates between even and odd letters of the alphabet, starting with an even one
-13. could represent the word CRYPTOGRAM in a cryptogram
-14. completes this sentence in a punny way: "The cornstalks ___ 10 inches after the heavy rainfall"
-15. would become a new verb if J were substituted for one of its letters
-16. would leave two types of motor vehicles if you deleted its middle letter
-17. contains, consecutively, three consecutive letter of the alphabet in proper alphabetical order
-18. changes from three syllables to one if its last letter is deleted
-19. sounds like a type of shoe when its two syllables are switched
-20. spells an object it describes if you read only the odd letters of the original word
