Word Detective Challenge
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Question 1: I am a word that becomes shorter when you add two letters. What am I?
Short
Tall
Long
Small
Question 2: Which word in English ends with 'gry'?
Angry
Hungry
Grumpy
Gloomy
Question 3: What common English word has three consecutive double letters?
Mississippi
Bookkeeper
Committee
Successfully
Question 4: Which word contains all five vowels in alphabetical order?
Cautious
Education
Ambitious
Facetious
Question 5: What's the only word in English that ends with '-mt'?
Attempt
Exempt
Dreamt
Prompt
Question 6: Which word becomes its own opposite when 'un-' is removed?
Unravel
Untie
Unlock
Undo
Question 7: What's the longest word typed using only the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard?
Stressed
Sweaters
Stewardess
Stewardesses
Question 8: Which word has the most letters 'i' in it?
Individual
Mississippi
Infinity
Indivisibility
Question 9: What's the only common word that has four consecutive repeated letters?
Goddessship
Bookkeeper
Committee
Possess
Question 10: Which word remains the same when read forwards, backwards, upside down, and in a mirror?
NOON
SWIMS
MOM
BOB
Question 11: What's the longest English word without a vowel?
Crypt
Rhythms
Rhythm
Myth
Question 12: Which word can have its letters rearranged to spell 'debit card'?
Card debt
Bad credit
Credit bad
Debt paid
Question 13: What's the only word in English that ends with '-dous'?
Stupendous
Dangerous
Tremendous
Hazardous
Question 14: Which word contains 'ghost'?
Aghast
Straightforward
Ghastly
Ghostly
Question 15: What English word has three 'u's in it?
Uncurious
Untruth
Unusual
Unsubtly