Braingle: 'Letter Juggle 4' Brain Teaser

Letter Juggle 4

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

Puzzle ID:	#46723
Fun:	(3.07)
Difficulty:	(1.29)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	MarcM1098

Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.

1. Eat - Fact
2. Fist - Spam
3. Ham - Smock
4. Tilde - Food
5. Sale - Cranking

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Comments

beyonce123 May 27, 2010	yay first comment. sorta hard.
2big2fail Nov 24, 2010	at - facEt also works for #1.
spikethru4 Nov 24, 2010	@2big2fail: no it doesn't; at and facet don't have remotely similar definitions
flyfisher Nov 24, 2010	Good Teaser, thanks
kasiecom Nov 24, 2010	For #1 feat and act also works.A feat by anyone is an act by them as well
kasiecom Nov 24, 2010	For #1 feat and act also works.A feat by anyone is an act by them as well e.g. a feat of kindness is an act of kindness.
Stack1607 Nov 24, 2010	Haha got them all
auntiesis Nov 24, 2010	It took a minute but I got them without the hint.
bradon182001 Dec 19, 2010	Well done, thanks for posting.