Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Start with a ten-letter word that means adornment or embellishment, e.g. on a cake.
2. Drop a letter, rearrange, and form a word for the act of putting a document into suitable form, or editing, revision. As a literary term it often means the combining of multiple source texts.
3. Lose one letter, reorder the remaining ones, and find an 8-letter word meaning the set of positions or policies taught or advocated, as of a religion or government.
4. Drop one, move the rest around. The result should be a formerly-produced, "low explosive" that is actually a smokeless propellant.
5. Remove a letter and reorder the ones left to form a 6-letter word for a type of card issued by Visa or MasterCard. Also an entry of payment or value received on an account, in bookkeeping.
6. Reduce and reorder to get a 5-letter word for an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.
7. Drop one, reorder, and the result should be the collective word for those small cubes you use to play games such as Yahtzee.
8. Getting easy now. Drop a letter and you should have a word for frozen water.
9. Remove one of the three left, don't reorder, and you'll find an abbreviation used in hospitals, especially in relation to things done for critically ill patients.
10. Drop one and you have the nominative singular pronoun in English.
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