Polywords

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

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Former Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 4936 ‘Kinlet Hall’ leaves Highley station on the Severn Valley Railway, on the way from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. The engine is named after Kinlet Hall in Shropshire.

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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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agile airer aloe earl email emir ergo gale galore game gamier gaol gaoler gear germ girl giro glam glare gleam goal goalie goer gore gorier grail gram grim grime image lager lair lame lamer large larger largo liar lima lime limo lira lire loam lore magi mail mailer male mare marge marl meal mega mile mirage mire molar mole moral morale more ogle ogre omega oral rage rail rare real realm ream rear rearm regal rigmarole rile rime roam roar roger roil role

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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. Large. 2. More. 3. Oral.

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 im-.

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