| You are given a pool of ten 3-letter words. Your job is to use all the words in the pool to create five pairs of words such that each pair can be anagrammed into a 6-letter word. Example: nod + rug = ground.
Pool: bee, hip, met, pry, raw, red, rum, sod, sun, toe |
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| Oxymorons are not thick bovines, but two words, with opposite meanings, linked together to form a descriptive phrase. As an example, golfers play with metal woods.
Take a word from the top list, pair it with a word from the second, and find all 7 oxymorons. LIST ONE: fine, dry, awfully, slipped, sweet, good, standing LIST TWO: jump, good, sorrow, sherry, drizzle, up, grief |
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| A spoonerism is a transposition of initial sounds of two or more words (as in “tons of soil” for “sons of toil”).
Armed with this definition, what is a spoonerism for a collection of almonds, cashews and walnuts as opposed to rejected dogs at the animal shelter? |
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