NPR Sunday Puzzle from yesterday is available on my ESL blog! Have fun playing with these alphabet letters and categories!

I'm going to name something — like a state, state capital, flower, etc. You name something else in the same category as my thing that has the same number of letters as mine ... and that starts and ends with the same letters as mine.

Example: Augusta --> ATLANTA [both state capitals, both 7 letters long, both start and end in "A"]

 

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1. Alabama

2. Pansy

3. Forty

4. Raven

5. Rupee

6. Baylor

7. Sudan

8. Jackson

9. Cocoa Puffs

 

Answer Keys

    1.  Arizona (7-letter US State that starts & ends with A)

    2.  Peony (5-letter flower that starts with P & ends with Y)

    3.  Fifty (5-letter number that starts with f & ends with Y)

    4.  Robin (5-letter bird name that starts with R & ends with N)

5.  Ruble (5-letter international currency name that starts with R & ends with E)

    6.  Butler (6-letter University name that starts with B & ends with R)

    7.  Spain (5-letter country that starts with S & ends with N)

    8.  Johnson (7-letter US president that starts with J & ends with N)

    9.  Cornflakes (10-letter cereal name that starts with C & ends with S)

The latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR! Find synonyms using the anagram of the given words!

I'm going to give you two 4-letter words. Rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. Which word is the synonym and which is the anagram is for you to discover.

Ex. SOUP WORK --> OPUS (anagram of "soup," synonym of "work")

 

 

1. THIN ELAN

2. TURN EVER

3. DRAG HULA

4. RASP MAST

5. DUNE BARE

6. WHIP GOLF

7. PLUM CLOD

8. LEAP RING

9. DRAB POET

10. FUSE LEWD

11. GONE FELT

 

Answer Keys

         1.  LEAN (anagram of “ELAN”, synonym of “THIN”)

     2. VEER (anagram of “EVER”, synonym of “TURN)

     3. HAUL (anagram of “HULA”, synonym of “DRAG)

     4. SPAR (anagram of “RASP”, synonym of “MAST”)

     5. NUDE (anagram of “DUNE”, synonym of “BARE”)

     6. FLOG (anagram of “GOLF”, synonym of “WHIP”)

     7. LUMP (anagram of “PLUM”, synonym of “CLOD”)

     8. PEAL (anagram of “LEAP”, synonym of “RING”)

     9. BARD (anagram of “DRAB”, synonym of “POET”)

     10. WELD (anagram of “LEWD”, synonym of “FUSE”)

     11. LEFT (anagram of “FELT”, synonym of “GONE”)

Let's make words using the given letters!

 

D	J	G	E
Y	I	W	N

 

Create 10 words by selecting the letters provided.

Letters can only be used once per word.

No curse words, sorry.

 

 

 

 

 

Answer Keys  

    1.  Win

    2.  Jig

    3.  New

    4.  Dew

    5.  Neg

    6.  Wig

    7.  In

     8.  EW

    9.  Dig

    10. Gin

Can you name the U.S. cities that make a rhyming phrase? Here's the latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR.

Every answer today is a two-word rhyming phrase that starts with the name of a U.S. city.

Ex. Alternatives to paper clips in Florida --> NAPLES STAPLES

 

1. Strip of breakfast meat in Georgia

2. Home for a king or queen in Texas

3. Overhead part of a room in West Virginia

4. Doing the rumba or waltz in Michigan

5. A lucky one has four leaves in Delaware

6. A herding dog in North Carolina

7. Marriage ceremony in Pennsylvania

8. Goods carried on a ship in North Dakota

9. Side of a road in Colorado

10. Coverings for holes in clothing in Mississippi

11. A metric unit in Hawaii

12. Place where planes land in Connecticut

 

Answer Keys

    1.   Macon Bacon

    2.   Dallas Palace

    3.   Wheeling Ceiling

    4.   Lancing Dancing

    5.   Dover Clover

    6.   Raleigh Collie

    7.   Reading Wedding

    8.   Fargo Cargo

    9.   Boulder Shoulder

    10. Natchez Patches

    11. Hilo Kilo

    12.  Fairfield Airfield