Braingle: 'Curtail L' Brain Teaser

Curtail L

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Puzzle ID:	#46299
Fun:	(3.08)
Difficulty:	(1.49)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	MarcM1098

When you curtail a word, you remove the last letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Heavenly body
Answer: The words are Start and Star.

1. Pebbles, rock fragments -> Tomb; serious
2. Prearranged fight with weapons -> Payable on demand; owed
3. Experience emotion; touch -> Fixed charge
4. Implement used for a job -> Also; excessively
5. Standard of perfection -> Mental concept; thought
6. Speech pattern with long vowels -> To sketch
7. Artist's tripod -> Freedom from hardship
8. Pale tint of colour -> Glue; a soft malleable mixture

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Comments

lukasiwicz Dec 18, 2010	This might have been a bit more challenging if every transformation from the first to the second word hadn't involved dropping a terminal "l."
MarcM1098 Dec 18, 2010	Thanks for your comment. After this series of teasers, I also did one in which every dropped letter was different. See the other Behead and Curtail teasers!
patiencewithaP Dec 18, 2010	I love these! Great job!!
ginnysaurus Dec 18, 2010	Pretty easy, but did make me think a bit! Got the first one wrong until I looked at the hint. ^.^
sunnybonghits Dec 18, 2010	I have to agree with the others. I like these puzzles a lot, but it gets too easy when it's the same letter for every word.
wordmama Dec 18, 2010	No hint needed, went through them all easily without a pause. Fun!
bradon182001 Dec 19, 2010	Fun teaser. Had to do a bit of thinking.