The clock in Darlington Bank Top railway station, the work of North Eastern Railway architect William Bell for the reopening of the station in 1887. One cannot imagine modern architects designing with such elegance and sense of heritage; by all accounts, John Dent, NER chairman from 1880 to 1894, thought Bell’s flourishes a little over-indulgent too.
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.
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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