Thursday, January 3, 2013

PUZZLE, Jan. 3rd, 2013



Previous Puzzle:  There were many good, correct answers to the “Merry Christmas” puzzle. Thanks and congratulations to all of you who participated.

New Puzzle: Some words can be used as both nouns and adjectives. In this teaser, you will be given a definition. That definition can be replaced by a single word that is used twice, once as an adjective, the other as a noun.

For example: "a 12 inch podiatrist specialty" is a "foot foot". Given the following four definitions, what are the corresponding doublets?

1) a current gift
2) a secure bank vault
3) a short formal statement
4) a fragile supply ship

The first completely correct answer gets the bonus point!

5 comments:

Philippe Marquis said...

Wow it took me a long time to come with answer 3. Hopefully I got it right.

1. A Present Present
2. A Safe Safe
3. Brief Brief
4. Breakable Breakable

Helen189 said...

1. present present
2. safe safe
3. brief brief
4. floaty floaty

Aygul189 said...

1. present present
2. safe safe
3. brief brief
4. tender tender

Alexis said...

1. present
2. safe
3. order
4. pack

Veronica Baig said...

PHILIPPE:3 out of 4;-)
HELEN: 3 out of 4!
AYGUL:congratulations:-)
ALEXIS: only 2 out of 4:-(