Monday, 15 June 2026

Don't obJECT To The OBject !

 How did you get on? Here are the answers  - and Kirsten's addition at the bottom [thanks K]. Well done if you got them all. Agape doesn't quite fit, as the second meaning is pronounced with three syllables.
And moped/mo-ped is somehow unexpected. I hope you had fun😊

Member of the clergy

curate

Select the best for show

A trade agreement

contract

Get smaller

A gift

present

Attending

Way in

entrance

Charm

Disabled

invalid

Incorrect/without effect

Tiny

minute

60 seconds

Stick out

project

Plan or design

Rubbish

refuse

Turn down

Gather together

collect

A short prayer

Create something

produce

Fruit and Vegetables

Ignore

discount

Reduce in price

Fault

defect

Go over to the other side

Mouth wide open

agape

Greek word for God’s love

Was miserable

moped

A small scooter

Walk in line

process

How to make something

15 comments:

  1. That was a fun quiz! There must be more words, surely?

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    1. There are, but I thought people would get bored. Maybe you could compile Quiz Part "??

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  2. I got them all except 2,5,7! That was fun!

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  3. Thank you for that quiz. I did get them all but wasn't too sure about agape but went for it after some deliberation. It was fun, I too love words. Regards Sue H

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  4. I remember hearing something about a word being a verb or a noun depending on whether the stress was on the first or second syllable, but I can't remember which way around it is.
    Thank you for sharing the fascinating list.

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    1. English is so crazy though - practise and practice sound the same, one is a verb, the other a noun [you practiSe singing, verb, but the Choir has practiCe, noun]

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  5. I got most of them, but not agape. I was also unsure about collect being a prayer, so I have to admit to that being a bit of a guess. Thanks for providing the answers. xx

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  6. I came across another puzzle that might be fun. The solution consists of two rhyming words, so the clue might be, "suitable building material" - "good wood", or "novel holy person" - "quaint saint". There is an on-line version, but it is fun to make them up!

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    1. My friend John taught me this game back in 1973. He claimed he'd invented it - but I think it was around a long time before that! He called it Stinky Pinky - a two syllable couplet like "iron boiler" [metal kettle]. If the words were one-syllable [like your examples] they were Stink Pinks. if three syllables then Stinkety Pinkety. His favourite StinketyPinkety was "King Henry's Wife, a model of excellence" and the answer was Aragon Paragon.

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  7. That was a fun quiz, Angela. I didn't know that a short prayer was a collect. In the same vein as practise and practice, there is rise (verb) and rice (noun), advise (verb) and advice (noun). And then, there are those words which are pronounced differently depending on which side of the pond one lives - schedule, lieutenant, nephew, etc. :D

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    1. We often watch TV with subtitles, and notice the UK /USA spelling differences

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