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Strictly Speaking
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Yesterday at 02:34 PM
Yesterday at 02:34 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 54,429
Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 54,429
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
Yesterday at 02:53 PM
Yesterday at 02:53 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 7,602
Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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Staff Reviewer
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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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Re: Strictly Speaking
[Re: Pandora]
#1367783
Yesterday at 10:52 PM
Yesterday at 10:52 PM
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Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 31,992
Ontario
manxman
Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 31,992
Ontario
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2j. mistress (doxy)  hi Pandie mis=improperly tress=braid hair
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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