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Word Swap #3
The following sentences have two blanks that can be filled with two words that are anagrams of each other. Please find those words.
1. In the TV commercial, an indignant woman __________ the salesman because she has been unable to obtain the promised __________.
2. The game went into triple overtime. The quarterback was exhausted and knew this was no time for his team to ______ energy. They were so dehydrated that they weren't even able to ______.
3. The famous mathematician __________ that he had invented a new __________ system.
1. In the TV commercial, an indignant woman __________ the salesman because she has been unable to obtain the promised __________.
2. The game went into triple overtime. The quarterback was exhausted and knew this was no time for his team to ______ energy. They were so dehydrated that they weren't even able to ______.
3. The famous mathematician __________ that he had invented a new __________ system.
Answer
BERATES, REBATESWASTE, SWEAT
CLAIMED, DECIMAL
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wow!
Very good!
Very good. For some reason, I have a difficult time guessing all of these! I can come up with a few but, very rarely can I get them all. Time to get the dictionary out and start reading!
good one, it was hard for me.
though.
though.
good one, I didn't get it though.
Wow
good ones! I shouldn't have given up so soon I was on the right track with the football player one.
Godd Job
good ones! I shouldn't have given up so soon I was on the right track with the football player one.
Godd Job
for the second one i had conserve and converse...
im really bad with anagrams so that was difficult
2 out'a 3 ain't bad.... too early for all dat thinkin'.....
This was a good one... though it wasa little too hard for me!!
wow!!!! way 2 hard 4 me!!!!! didn't get one of 'em!!!!!!!! nice job!!!!!!
a real toughie! Strained the brain on this one
good ones i didnt get any of them though i suck at these real thinkers
Yeah I'm kinda bad at those one too Great one!!
OMG!! Hard one . . . . good!
i didnt like it! i got the middle 1 but nobody likes anagrams
bad horrible
bad horrible
I love these things. They're hard for me, but they're real fun!
I thought the middle one was easy but the other two were hard. Very good.
That was a really good one! I liked it! I didnt guess any right, or anything! It was real cool!
I only looked at it briefly. After seeing the answers I had guessed lose and sole for the first.
Get those poor football players off the field!!
Not sweating is a sign of heat stroke, not dehydration.
good anagrams
Not sweating is a sign of heat stroke, not dehydration.
good anagrams
I couldn't remember what anagrams were, so it was kinda hard.lol.
GOOD, but the third one makes little sense, as there is only one decimal system, and there can't be another decimal system. It's like making another Paris or meeting another George W. Bush.
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