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The definitions of ten words are given below. The answers go from 6 to 2 letters, then back up to 7. You may have to anagram the letters to get your answers.
1. Tall towers atop a church (plural) (6 letters)
2. Platforms built out into the water to provide access to boats (plural) (5 letters)
3. Fully developed or matured, as fruit. (4 letters)
4. Belligerence or anger (3 letters)
5. What something is about, commonly used in the header of a memo (2 letters)
6. Second person singular form of the verb BE (3 letters)
7. A flightless bird found in Brazil (4 letters)
8. The organ that pumps blood throughout the body (5 letters)
9. A declaration of an intent to inflict harm on another (6 letters)
10. Legalese for 'at that place' (7 letters)
1. Tall towers atop a church (plural) (6 letters)
2. Platforms built out into the water to provide access to boats (plural) (5 letters)
3. Fully developed or matured, as fruit. (4 letters)
4. Belligerence or anger (3 letters)
5. What something is about, commonly used in the header of a memo (2 letters)
6. Second person singular form of the verb BE (3 letters)
7. A flightless bird found in Brazil (4 letters)
8. The organ that pumps blood throughout the body (5 letters)
9. A declaration of an intent to inflict harm on another (6 letters)
10. Legalese for 'at that place' (7 letters)
Answer
1. Spires2. Piers
3. Ripe
4. Ire
5. Re
6. Are
7. Rhea
8. Heart
9. Threat
10. Thereat
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