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12-year old Forrie Agincourt stayed with his Auntie Jenn Malheur while his parents drove to Prosper, Connecticut for a second honeymoon. It seemed that whatever Jenn would say, Forrie would twist around to almost the opposite phrasing, and vice versa.
Over the week, they conceived several sets of words that you might think were opposites. Each pair of definitions below involves two words that are spelled the same ... except that the first start with "pro" and the second starts with "con".
Forrie gave the list to his parents when they returned. Without conferring, Prospera was confident of 5 of the 6 problems, conceding only one; Connor consequently probed only 4. Can you connect on all six?
1. division of Canada or France -- win over
2. argue against -- competition
3. geometry tool -- builder
4. a stage play -- property of electrical transmission
5. intellectually deep -- befuddle
6. advance -- legislature
Over the week, they conceived several sets of words that you might think were opposites. Each pair of definitions below involves two words that are spelled the same ... except that the first start with "pro" and the second starts with "con".
Forrie gave the list to his parents when they returned. Without conferring, Prospera was confident of 5 of the 6 problems, conceding only one; Connor consequently probed only 4. Can you connect on all six?
1. division of Canada or France -- win over
2. argue against -- competition
3. geometry tool -- builder
4. a stage play -- property of electrical transmission
5. intellectually deep -- befuddle
6. advance -- legislature
Answer
1. province -- convince2. protest -- contest
3. protractor -- contractor
4. production -- conduction
5. profound -- confound
6. progress -- congress
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Had me going on this one, only got 5 right. Good work
interesting!!
Cool.
Very clever, but too early in am for me...
nicely done But I was only able to connect six of the seven
Sorry, there used to be 7, one was removed during editing, but the setup wasn't changed appropriately.
Norceckri, a simple correction to change some parts of the teaser relating to the "7" would make everything fit wonderfuly. I actualy caught that and, was going to submit a correction myself, as i thought it was a mistake. But, after i saw the commets, i will leave it to you. After all, it's a clever and also creative teaser. Keep them coming.
Clever! I enjoyed working this one out. I only got 4 of them, but it was fun tyring to work the rest of them. Good Job. I thought it was well written and thought out. Thanks for the good teaser
i didn't understand the question...
Sep 28, 2005
i didnt know what the question was asking. It was making me mad
This was great I enjoyed it a lot but France has departments. Thinking of the last one I just started thinking randomly. Try this:
A parade - Giving up
A parade - Giving up
I actually only got one. (Not a good day...) Great teaser though!
I thought it was really easy, but very clever. Nice one!
nice one
I totally loved this one ! It was really fun to do. I got all of them!
So enjoyed this teaser. With all the pro and con words available it tends to get us playing with words and writing our own clues. Great new game for us Thanks so much
got 4.....Ah well
Great one, it was hard for me, but really liked it
This was great! Thanks for another good teaser! Got 5 right. Practice does help.
Not difficult, but a pretty excellent teaser.
N.taliesen:
Procession/Concession
Procession/Concession
I loved it, and I only missed the first one!
Well, I think most (here in the states, anyway) would agree, progress and congress are opposites.
funny paul
got 'em all in less than 60 seconds. still was fun, though.
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