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Behead A
When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Time past -> Leave
2. Street -> Event location
3. Ends "Our Father" -> Fathers
4. Shared an opinion -> Excessive desire for something
5. Misuses; harms -> Multi-passenger vehicles
6. Pursue lofty goal -> Pointed tower top
7. Sum total -> Climb on
8. Stay away from -> A gap; empty
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Time past -> Leave
2. Street -> Event location
3. Ends "Our Father" -> Fathers
4. Shared an opinion -> Excessive desire for something
5. Misuses; harms -> Multi-passenger vehicles
6. Pursue lofty goal -> Pointed tower top
7. Sum total -> Climb on
8. Stay away from -> A gap; empty
Hint
The shorter words start with these letters:1. G
2. V
3. M
4. G
5. B
6. S
7. M
8. V
Answer
1. Ago -> Go2. Avenue -> Venue
3. Amen -> Men
4. Agreed -> Greed
5. Abuses -> Buses
6. Aspire -> Spire
7. Amount -> Mount
8. Avoid -> Void
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Yay I'm the first one!
Once I realized that the first word started with the letter a, they became pretty easy.
I'm usually pretty good at these, but this one was tough.
That bus one almost got me... I thought "abuse, buse... abus, bus.... ?"
Nice teaser, took some thought but not too much to give me a headache. Thanks for posting.
Dang it...couldn't come up with aspire/spire! Great teaser!
I needed the hint for #2 and #6. I really enjoy these!
I don't like 'shared an opinion' as the definition for 'agreed', but I can see it. Personally, I thought 'opined' and 'pined' would have been a better answer, but that doesn't start with 'a' and the definition of 'pined' would also have to be in the past tense.
I needed the hint letters for #'s 4 & 7 but enjoyed the teaser a bunch! Keep 'em comin'!
agree with "patiencewithaP" that one was tricky.. but got hte others..was tops fun woop woop! more please mr teaser
Sunnybonghits, I think "shared an opinion" works for agreed. If two people share an opinion, then they agree, at least on that one point.
Another one of those behead teasers.
Abuses/Buses took me a few seconds - I wasn't looking at a plural, even though the clue clearly indicates one and couldn't get bus/abus or van/avan (yes I kow neither of those are words) to work but got is as soon as I reread the question.
I needed the hint for aspire / spire as well.
In genearl I like these behead teasers, but they have been being used a lot when there are so many other teasers that could be used that no one has ever seen.
I needed the hint for aspire / spire as well.
In genearl I like these behead teasers, but they have been being used a lot when there are so many other teasers that could be used that no one has ever seen.
I thought it was scar/car-had fun with it, though!
For gave an opinion and excessive desired, I thought of opined/pined.
I liked this quiz. Thanks for posting.
I liked this quiz. Thanks for posting.
I got all but one pretty quickly - couldn't come up with #4. Excellent teaser - I enjoyed it very much.
As these types of teasers go, I found this on the hard side. How about an alternate answer for #5 scars - cars?
Nice ezy fun teaser; didn't need the hint, thanks Marc!
Another one? I suppose I should be glad there can only be 26.
These were good. Usually way too easy, but this was a nice moderate difficulty, at least in my opinion. I wasn't a fan of agreed/greed, though. I don't think the descriptions were good for those words.
Fun, challenging and entertaining teaser; I got them all but it took awhile and required the hint for some of them.
#4: I think opine and pine work just as well (maybe better
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