Time to Play a Puzzle! (from this last Sunday on NPR)

 Time to play a word puzzle created by Will Shortz from the On-air challenge of NPR.

I'm going to give you some six-letter words. For each one, change one of the consonants to a vowel to make another familiar six-letter word.

 

Example: DEFECT --> DEFEAT

1. AVENGE

2. DIPPER

3. MIGHTY

4. PREPPY

5. GROUSE

6. MADDEN

7. BIKING

8. CARTER

9. GRANGE

10. DECENT

11. STANCH

12. STANCE

 

 

Answer Keys 

    1.  avenue

    2.  diaper

    3.  eighty

    4.  prepay

    5.  arouse

    6.  maiden

    7.  bikini

    8.  career

    9.  orange

   10.   deceit

   11.  stance

   12.  seance