ad, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
— Carmen Agra Deedy
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For writers, readers, Scrabble, crossword and word gamers like me, Succeed and Soar’s “Word Witty” posts offer little puzzles that strengthen a precious tool: Vocabulary.
Please enjoy.
Sandra Gould Ford
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Word Witty Puzzle
Alphagrams are letters that, when re-assembled, spell words. What three words can be made by re-arranging these letters?
AEELST
Following are visual clues. Answers below.
A Tool for Wool Carding
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A Healing Plant That Eats Bugs
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Symbolic Pillar
6-Minute Video of Ancient Ethiopian Structures
6-Minute Video of Ancient Ethiopian Structures
Puzzles
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This puzzle illustrates words spoken by a marvelous character in my first novel, Faraday’s Popcorn Factory,
As with trees, every storm survived strengthens the roots.
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Word Witty Answers
- ELATES makes proud or joyful; fills with high spirits, exhilaration, or optimism; “to raise, elevate,” probably from the Latin elatus, “uplifted, exalted”
- STELAE an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet
Greek for “standing rock, slab” from Proto-Indo-European stel– “to put, stand”
the central core of tissue in the stem or root of a vascular plant, - TEASEL any of several plants of the genus Dipsacus, native to the Old World, having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts;
a wire device that produces a napped surface on fabric; from Old English tæsel,
a “large thistle used in teasing cloth,” from the Proto-Germanic taisilo and Old High German zeisala, built from the root of the Old English tæsan, “to pluck”
