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Lair

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

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A venomous banded krait in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta.

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A venomous banded krait in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta.

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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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Practice

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. Alter. 2. Care. 3. Great. 4. Late. 5. Later. 6. Tail. 7. Tear. 8. Tragic. 9. Trail.

Show Useful Words (A-Z order)

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 in-.

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