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Nape

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

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Nape

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Looking down from Napes Needle and Great Gable past Wasdale Head towards Wastwater in the Cumbrian Lake District.

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© Clive Giddis, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Looking down from Napes Needle and Great Gable past Wasdale Head towards Wastwater in the Cumbrian Lake District.

Polywords (261)

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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acer acne acre airy cairn cane cape caper care carp cine crane crap crape cure cyan earn ecru epic incur inure nacre nape narc neap near nice nicer pace pacey pacier pacy pain pair pane panic pare payer pear pecan pecuniary penury peri picayune pier pincer pine piney piny piracy prance pray prey price pricey pricy prince prune puce punier puny pure pyre race racy rain rainy rani rape rapine reap recap rein repay rice ripe ripen ruin rune runic unripe uric urine yarn year yearn yuan

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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. Care. 2. Near. 3. Painful. 4. Prince. 5. Pure. 6. Reap. 7. Ripe.

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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 un-.

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