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Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.Language
Starting with a one-letter word or abbreviation, add a letter and rearrange the letters to produce the next. A clue is given for each.
Maybe your car does 0 to 60 in 10 sec., but can you do this "0 to 10" in 60 sec.? Go on - get out the stopwatch!
The hint provides the starting letters of the even numbered words.
1. Softly (musical abbrev.)
2. Musical work (abbrev.)
3. Home for peas!
4. Fool (a few peas short of a #3!)
5. Made a choice
6. Oppressive tyrant
7. Natural layer (e.g. of sand, coal, ore)
8. Rare, copper-based, blue-green mineral
9. Australia and New Zealand (to northern hemisphere dwellers)
10. Asteroids
Maybe your car does 0 to 60 in 10 sec., but can you do this "0 to 10" in 60 sec.? Go on - get out the stopwatch!
The hint provides the starting letters of the even numbered words.
1. Softly (musical abbrev.)
2. Musical work (abbrev.)
3. Home for peas!
4. Fool (a few peas short of a #3!)
5. Made a choice
6. Oppressive tyrant
7. Natural layer (e.g. of sand, coal, ore)
8. Rare, copper-based, blue-green mineral
9. Australia and New Zealand (to northern hemisphere dwellers)
10. Asteroids
Hint
2. O4. D
6. D
8. D
10. P
Answer
1. P2. Op
3. Pod
4. Dope
5. Opted
6. Despot
7. Deposit
8. Dioptase
9. Antipodes
10. Planetoids
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