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Words in Common 6 (Posted on 2003-09-28)

What do the following words have in common?

ant, past, sing, teeth, amoeba, escape, therefor

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Each of the above words are trnasformed into a new word when the letter "e" is appended to each.

So,

ant + e = ante
past+ e = paste
sing+ e = singe
teeth+e = teethe
amoeba+ e = amoebae
escape + e = escapee
therefor + e = therefore

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-03-30 05:04:39

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