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Friday, December 15, 2006
Falls in the middle
What word creates two new words. For example: green completes ever - ___ - horn to make evergreen and greenhorn.
1. LENGTH - _______ - CRACK 2. WITH - _______ - OVER 3. MAKE - _______ - LESS
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1. wise
ReplyDelete2. hold
3. weight
I would say shift for #3
ReplyDelete1. LENGTH - WISE - CRACK
ReplyDelete2. WITH - HOLD - OVER
3. MAKE - SHIFT - LESS
I'm not sure about make-weight? I don't think I've ever heard that word before.
go to m-w.com...makeweight is in the dictionary.
ReplyDeleteI chalk this one up as another win for me. (heh)
Alright, Andy, I'll give this one to you... but I'll be keeping my eyes on you! (Said in my best bad guy/mom/dad voice ;-) )
ReplyDeletemake·weight (māk'wāt') Pronunciation Key
n.
1. Something added on a scale in order to meet a required weight.
2. Something added only to fill a lack.
3. A counterweight; a counterbalance.
woo hoo! thanks Mike. Just for that, I'm going to click on a couple of the google ads on your page.
ReplyDeletePlease don't do that, Andy. While I appreciate the thought, that's against the TOS for google adsense and you could lose me my account there.
ReplyDeleteJust the fact that you like the site and keep coming back is enough for me, really.