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Van

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

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A vintage van at the Derwent Pencil Museum, Cumbria.

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A vintage van at the Derwent Pencil Museum, Cumbria.

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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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alien alit alive alpine ante anti anvil elan entail evil inept inlet invite lain lane late lave lean leant leap leapt leat lent lien line lint lite live liven nail naive nape native nave navel neap neat pail pain paint pale pane panel pant pantile pate paten pave peal peat pelt penal pent petal pile pine pint pita plain plaint plaintive plait plan plane planet plant plate plea pleat pliant tail tale tape teal tiepin tile tine vain vale valent valet vane veal veil vein venal venial vent vial vile vine vital
plaintive invite native planet alien alive anvil inept inlet leant leapt naive navel paint panel penal petal plain plane plant plate pleat valet venal vital evil lane late lean leap lent lain line lint live nail nape nave neat pail pain pale pane pant pave peal peat pelt pile pine pint plan plea tail tale tape tile vain veal veil vein vent vile vine
alien alit alive alpine ante anti anvil elan entail evil inept inlet invite lain lane late lave lean leant leap leapt leat lent lien line lint lite live liven nail naive nape native nave navel neap neat pail pain paint pale pane panel pant pantile pate paten pave peal peat pelt penal pent petal pile pine pint pita plain plaint plaintive plait plan plane planet plant plate plea pleat pliant tail tale tape teal tiepin tile tine vain vale valent valet vane veal veil vein venal venial vent vial vile vine vital

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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. Late. 2. Later. 3. Nail. 4. Neat. 5. Painful. 6. Plain. 7. Plant. 8. Tail. 9. Vain.

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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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