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Word Challenge is built around vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and relationships between words. This page remains a preview until enough reviewed examples are ready for publication.
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1. Which word can mean either to permit something or to impose a penalty?
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Answer: Sanction
2. What is a word called when it keeps the same spelling but changes pronunciation and meaning?
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Answer: Heteronym
3. Which English word contains the five vowel letters in alphabetical order?
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Answer: Facetious
4. Which word means lasting for a very short time?
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Answer: Ephemeral
5. Which figure of speech combines apparently contradictory terms such as deafening silence?
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Answer: Oxymoron
6. What is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet called?
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Answer: Pangram
7. What does the suffix -ology usually indicate?
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Answer: The study of a subject
8. What is a word with no repeated letters called?
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Answer: Isogram
9. What is the small dot above a lowercase i or j called?
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Answer: Tittle
10. What meaning does the prefix bene- usually carry?
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Answer: Good or well
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