Thursday, November 20, 2008

PUZZLE, Nov. 20th, 2009

Here is the answer to last week’s puzzle.

Five words that contain GU as a letter-pair have had all of their other letters except one removed and placed into a pool. Put those letters back in their proper places. What are the words?

M*GU*, GU*T**, J*GU**, D**GU*, P**GU**

Pool: A, A, A, E, E, E, I, I, L, N, N, N, O, R, R,

MOGUL, GUITAR, JAGUAR, DENGUE, PENGUIN

THIS WEEK:

A blended word is one made up from two other common words to form a new word., for example, bash comes from bang + smash.

What are the blended words that have come from the following pairs of words:
1. flap + drop
2. emotion + icon
3. gorilla + baboon
4. marionette + puppet
5. slovenly + language

2 comments:

Dejo said...

1. flap+drop: flop
2. emotion+icon: emoticon
3. gorilla+baboon: goon
4. marionette+puppet: met
5. slovenly+language: slang

Veronica Baig said...

DEJO: That's 4 out of 5; do you want to try #4 again?