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1. Take a word meaning to snap something - PLUS a word meaning "rapid" - TO EQUAL which word meaning a meal usually in the morning?

Answer: Breakfast

Breakfast, so the medical authorities assure us, is the most important meal of the day. It gives us the energy for the day ahead, and allows us to think more clearly. Because we've been asleep for approximately ten hours prior to breakfast, we've been without food.

In the olden days, going without food was known as a "Fast". Therefore, when we wake up in the morning and eat a nice healthy brekkie, what we have done is BREAK our FAST.

2. Take a word meaning "all" - PLUS a word to describe the physical structure of a human or animal - TO EQUAL which word meaning all those present in a room?

Answer: Everybody

"Everybody" is a word that means the same thing as "everyone". It means all those present in any given place. Such as everybody was present at school today, or everybody ran in the marathon, or everybody who attended the party had a lovely time. We tend to use "everyone" today more than "everybody", but that's just generally speaking. There's no hard and fast rule for it.

3. Take a word meaning part of Santa's laugh - PLUS a word meaning "saliva" - PLUS a word that is a short form of the name, "Alan" - TO EQUAL which large building associated with patients?

Answer: Hospital

Hospitals are usually very large buildings to which people go when they're feeling sick, or have had an accident of some kind, or to have an operation to make them better. Some of the really large hospitals also have physiotherapy rooms, and occupational therapy rooms, or speech therapy rooms, or x-ray departments or all kinds of other rooms associated with human health. I was in hospital a LOT when I was a child, so I'm not very fond of them. I particularly hate the way they smell, all disinfected and completely different from home.

The good thing about hospitals today is that you usually get to go home a LOT faster than once was the case. And your Mum and Dad and other friends or relatives will visit you while you're in there.

4. Take a word that is the opposite of "on" - PLUS a word that describes frozen water - TO EQUAL which word describing where a typist might work?

Answer: Office

The word "office" can have several different meanings, but the one used for this quiz describes a set of rooms, or one very large room, where the business side of any organisation is tended to. This could include receiving and banking money, paying bills, doing bookwork, filing documents, lots of typing on computer keyboards, photocopying and many other different tasks required for keeping a business or organisation running smoothly.

When I was small, there were no such thing as computers - can you imagine that? All typing was done on manual or electric typewriters, so typists had to be very careful not to make any mistakes.

It was a lot harder to fix a mistake back then. Today you simply backspace on the keyboard.

5. Take a word that some American children might call their father - PLUS a word that means "ripped" - TO EQUAL which word meaning your mother or father?

Answer: Parent

Well, I guess you know what a parent is, don't you - the mother or father of a child. Animals are also parents as well, but we usually don't refer to them as the mother or father in the same way we do with humans, but by their animal terms instead. The father of a calf, for example, is a bull, and its mother is called a cow.

Some children don't live with their parents, but with other carers instead in place of them. That could be grandparents, or uncles and aunts, or older brothers or sisters, or even trained workers employed by the government to look after them.

6. Take a word describing a small green vegetable - PLUS a slang term to describe your head - TO EQUAL which word that is a small yummy treat surrounded by a hard shell?

Answer: Peanut

Peanuts are not fruit or vegetables as some people think, but are classed as grain legumes. Because of long term usage, we still refer to them as nuts, though. They still taste great whatever they're called, don't they! I like salty, crunchy ones. Medical authorities, though, say "Tsk, tsk, too much salt is bad for you", but what's a peanut without salt, I ask you. Do go easy on salt normally though, won't you? A little bit is good, but too much can have long term negative health consequences for some people. Peanuts were originally introduced to the rest of the world from South America.

7. Take a word meant to describe what fish do in the water - PLUS a word to describe a famous type of Chinese vase - TO EQUAL which word to describe moving through water with your arms and legs?

Answer: Swimming

Swimming is what we do when we propel ourselves through water, using our arms and legs as the means to do so. Humans have been swimming in water for as long as they have existed. There are even old stone age drawings on the walls of caves depicting people at this activity. I wonder if, back then, they swam for fun in the way we do today, or if they had more serious reasons for swimming? Quite possibly it was for a bit of everything - hunting, fun and work, or even to escape from enemies or predators. Today we swim for fun, for sport, for exercise, and, in some countries, even as employment. Pearl divers, or deep sea divers, or navy personnel, for example.

8. Take a word that means what you do when you have plonked down on a chair - PLUS a word describing a large metal container filled with hot water for making tea - TO EQUAL which planet in our solar system?

Answer: Saturn

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system. It was named after one of the old Roman myths - their god of agriculture, wealth and plenty. Saturday is also named after this god as well. The sixth planet from the sun in our system, scientists believe Saturn's interior is made up of iron, nickel and rock, while the famous rings surrounding the planet are made up of minute rocks, ice and dust.

This interesting planet has at least 62 moons that astronomers are aware of, but who knows, they could still find more in the future. Space is still very much unexplored territory for mankind.

9. Take a word meaning "going in the direction of" - PLUS a word meaning to fetch something - PLUS a female pronoun - TO EQUAL which word meaning "everything all combined"?

Answer: Together

Together, according to an online dictionary means to be "in the same time, at the same place" with one another. This word of course can refer to many other concepts other than people. A mechanic, for example, could put all the parts of a car together to form a working engine - or a cook could combine all the ingredients listed in a recipe together to make a yummy cake.

It's anything to do with any category that has many individual parts, that when combined together, form one larger and different whole.

10. Take a word describing a legal order from a court of law - PLUS the number that follows the highest single digit - TO EQUAL which word that describes the past tense of "writing"?

Answer: Written

It's hard to imagine that once there was a time when human beings did not know how to put down the written word in their communications with one another, but the major reason for that, in our very early existence, is that we had no NEED to do so. It was only when we began to grow crops, rear domesticated animals and trade with one another that the need for writing to keep records arose - and writing grew from that. Today human beings use writing for everything - keeping records, communicating, creating amazing works of literature, everything.

Then once anything new is put down on paper (or in a computer), that piece of writing is described, in the past tense, as having been written. Just like this quiz has been written for you.

Source: Author Creedy

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Word Fun for Kids Trivia Quiz

Can you work out the meaning of the separate clues given for several words, and then combine them to select a brand new word from the match list? Have fun.

Questions		Choices
1. Take a word meaning to snap something - PLUS a word meaning "rapid" - TO EQUAL which word meaning a meal usually in the morning?		Peanut
2. Take a word meaning "all" - PLUS a word to describe the physical structure of a human or animal - TO EQUAL which word meaning all those present in a room?		Saturn
3. Take a word meaning part of Santa's laugh - PLUS a word meaning "saliva" - PLUS a word that is a short form of the name, "Alan" - TO EQUAL which large building associated with patients?		Parent
4. Take a word that is the opposite of "on" - PLUS a word that describes frozen water - TO EQUAL which word describing where a typist might work?		Swimming
5. Take a word that some American children might call their father - PLUS a word that means "ripped" - TO EQUAL which word meaning your mother or father?		Everybody
6. Take a word describing a small green vegetable - PLUS a slang term to describe your head - TO EQUAL which word that is a small yummy treat surrounded by a hard shell?		Breakfast
7. Take a word meant to describe what fish do in the water - PLUS a word to describe a famous type of Chinese vase - TO EQUAL which word to describe moving through water with your arms and legs?		Together
8. Take a word that means what you do when you have plonked down on a chair - PLUS a word describing a large metal container filled with hot water for making tea - TO EQUAL which planet in our solar system?		Hospital
9. Take a word meaning "going in the direction of" - PLUS a word meaning to fetch something - PLUS a female pronoun - TO EQUAL which word meaning "everything all combined"?		Written
10. Take a word describing a legal order from a court of law - PLUS the number that follows the highest single digit - TO EQUAL which word that describes the past tense of "writing"?		Office