Tuesday, February 24, 2009

PUZZLE, Feb. 24th, 2010

Previous Puzzle

1. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...BALLOON
2. Body modification.TATTOO
3. A Group of people.COMMITTEE
4. Acuteness or acumen. KEENNESS

New Puzzle

Find a shorter word with the meaning given within the following words:
Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the shorter words in the words below that fir the definitions given:
1. prosecute
2. scoundrel
3. falsities
4. stockings
5. pantaloons
6. brackets

9 comments:

marthasq said...

1. prosecute - sue
2. scoundrel - scour
3. falsities- false
4. stockings - sock
5. pantaloons - pant
6. brackets - brace

Saadat said...

1, cute
2, score
3, site
4, king
5, nap
6, brake

uzma said...

1. prosecute prose
2. scoundrel score
3. falsities false
4. stockings stock
5. pantaloons pants
6. brackets rackets

Veronica Baig said...

MARTHA: Part way there--think again about #s 2 and 3.
SAADAT & UZMA: The word hidden in the longer word must have the same meaning as the longer word;-)

marthasq said...

2. sour
3. lies

Veronica Baig said...

MARTHA: #2--no; #3--yes!!

marthasq said...

2. sound
I have run out of ideas;and researching hasn't helped me find a word within the word which has the same meaning. I have discovered some interesting information about it though. It comes from Yiddish, which is a European language derived from German and Hebrew. The original meaning was a person who was 'homeless' and now has come to mean a 'evil' or 'mischievous'. It could also be used in a romanitized way as 'villian'.

Josephine said...

Hi Martha, I think #3 is louse

Veronica Baig said...

JOESPHINE: Good idea, but Martha was correct;-)