Time to play the NPR puzzle! Today, let us find common words that originated from German language!

Every answer today is a word that comes from German, but that's also commonly used in English. See if you can identify them from their anagrams.

 

Ex. REGAL / Beer brewed slowly at low temperature --> LAGER

 

1. GNATS / Feeling of anxiety or dread

2. PILES / Fast-paced sales talk

3. MUTUAL / Diacritical mark made with two dots

4, ELIDES / Kind of engine or the fuel that powers it

5. WE'RE IN / Sausage

6. GET LAST / Something that's more than the sum of its parts

7. POSTAGE / Brutal secret police

8. BENT OVER / Forbidden

9. ADULT WRENS / Innate desire to travel

 

Answer Keys

    1.  ANGST  

    2.  SPIEL 

    3.  UMLAUT  

    4.  DIESEL   

    5.  WIENER 

    6.  GESTALT  

    7.  GESTAPO

    8.  VERBOTEN 

    9.  WANDERLUST