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Strictly Speaking
#1367758
6 hours ago
6 hours ago
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 54,428 Upstate NY
Pandora
OP
Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 54,428
Upstate NY
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The clues in 1-10 all define words in obscure ways. A-J contains the actual definitions or descriptions of the words. Determine the real words and match them with the similar-sounding descriptions. Example: “Set of twelve” (dozen) would match with “meditate” (do Zen). Please explain your answers.
1. Very small fall flower 2. Braid hair improperly 3. Shoe relative? -4. Car pool member -5. Foot -6. Our successors on earth 7. Excellent eye shader 8. Full of winesaps and macs? 9. Female donkey? -10. Perform a hepatectomy
a. put to use b. straw boss -c. mechanize d. orange color e. least -f. utter, recite -g. tale, saga h. analyze critically -i. letter carrier j. doxy
If you spell the words "absolutely nothing" backwards, you get "Gnihton yletulosba", which ironically means absolutely nothing.
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Re: Strictly Speaking
[Re: Pandora]
#1367762
5 hours ago
5 hours ago
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,602 Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
Staff Reviewer
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Staff Reviewer
BAAG Specialist
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,602
Long Beach, Australia
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I’ll try 6/i postman (letter carrier) and ‘post man’ will be what they call those that replace us
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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