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Heft

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

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By Trevor Littlewood, Geograph. Licence: Public domain.

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Heft

By Trevor Littlewood, Geograph. Licence: Public domain. Source
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Herdwick sheep returning to the high fells below High Crag, near Buttermere in Cumbria. ‘Hefting’ is an ancient method of shepherding by which the sheep learn their home area (heft or heaf) and voluntarily keep to it, without the need for fences, passing the knowledge down through the generations, ewe to lamb.

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Polywords (252)

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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ache acne aitch ante anti antic cafe cane cant cent chafe chain chant chat cheat chef chief chieftain chin china chine chit cine cite each enact etch ethic ethnic face facet fact fain faint faith fate feat feint feta fetch fiance fiat fiche finch fine finite hate heat heft hint inch incite infect itch natch neat nice niche teach tech tench than then thief thin thine tine
incite fiance infect ethnic finite faith feint thief ethic fetch teach enact finch faint cheat chant chain chafe chief china cane thin hint inch itch cafe nice then neat than fine face fact chin etch cite each ache chef hate chat fate feat heat
ache acne aitch ante anti antic cafe cane cant cent chafe chain chant chat cheat chef chief chieftain chin china chine chit cine cite each enact etch ethic ethnic face facet fact fain faint faith fate feat feint feta fetch fiance fiat fiche finch fine finite hate heat heft hint inch incite infect itch natch neat nice niche teach tech tench than then thief thin thine tine

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Opposites Find in Think and Speak

Suggest words or phrases that seem opposite in meaning to each of the words below. We have suggested some possible answers; see if you can find any others.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1. Enact. 2. Fact. 3. Faint. 4. Faith. 5. Faithful. 6. Fine. 7. Finite. 8. Hint. 9. Infect.

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Variations: 1.instead of opposites, suggest words of similar meaning (synonyms). 2.use a word and its opposite in the same sentence. 3.suggest any 5 opposites formed by adding im-.

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