Vocabulary Riddles

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Medium +17 XP
The Pangram
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This sentence is special because...
Easy +16 XP
The Silent Letter
I have a K at the start but you never hear it. I am...
Easy +25 XP
The Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Every major word starts with the...
Easy +17 XP
The Palindrome
I am a word that reads the same forwards and backwards. Examples include kayak,...
Easy +25 XP
The Hyperbole
I am so hungry I could eat a horse. This is an extreme exaggeration...
Medium +10 XP
The Longest Word
I am the longest common English word with only one vowel. I have 8...
Easy +15 XP
The Simile
Brave as a lion, light as a feather, sweet as honey. These compare two...
Easy +20 XP
The Double Meaning
I can mean to prohibit, and I can also mean a unit of atmospheric...
Easy +18 XP
The Metaphor
Time is money, life is a journey, the world is a stage. These say...
Medium +14 XP
The Q Without U
I am one of the few English words with Q not followed by U....
Medium +14 XP
The Onomatopoeia
Buzz, hiss, splash, and pop are all words that sound like what they describe....
Easy +23 XP
The Synonym Chain
Big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic, colossal. These all mean the same thing. What are...
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