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Cave

Make as many words as you can from just nine letters. Can you beat our score?

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Cave

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This cave in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, had people baffled when early 19th century scientists identified the remains of animals such as zebra and antelope. One theory was that they had been swept there in Noah’s Flood, but William Buckland, Dean of Christ Church and Professor of Geology at Oxford, showed that the cave had been the den of a hyena, and that these typically sub-Saharan creatures had once roamed Yorkshire.

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.

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activate active apace attic cape captivate captive cave caveat cite civet epic evict pace pact pate pave peat pita pitta tacit tact tape teat vacate vice
activate captive vacate active tacit evict attic cape tact teat vice tape peat cave epic pace pact pave pate cite
activate active apace attic cape captivate captive cave caveat cite civet epic evict pace pact pate pave peat pita pitta tacit tact tape teat vacate vice

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Practice

Spinners Find in Think and Speak

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1 Activate. Attic. Pave.

2 Cape. Captive. Cite.

3 Pace. Peat. Tacit.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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