Word Detective: Hidden Meanings Quiz
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Question 1: I am a word that becomes shorter when you add two letters. What am I?
Big
Small
Short
Tiny
Question 2: Which word in English ends with 'gry'?
Angry
Hungry
Hungry
Gry
Question 3: What common English word contains the letters 'uu'?
Unusual
Vacuum
Continuous
Uruguay
Question 4: Which word becomes its own opposite when the first letter is removed?
Light
Bright
Slaughter
Please
Question 5: What's the only word in English that ends in 'mt'?
Exempt
Dreamt
Attempt
Prompt
Question 6: Which word contains all five vowels in alphabetical order?
Ambitious
Facetious
Delicious
Energetic
Question 7: What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper
Committee
Mississippi
Balloon
Question 8: Which word remains the same when read forwards, backwards, upside down, and in a mirror?
NOON
SWIMS
MOM
WOW