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touch strong verbs

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  1. 1. Peel away the paint or finish
  2. 5. Draw close, but don't push
  3. 7. Prodding for a reaction
  4. 8. Seize the moment, or a handrail
  5. 9. Beat repeatedly with fists
  6. 11. Gentle pass over a pet's fur
  7. 13. Leave a unique mark of identity
  8. 15. Extinguish a fire with a heavy blanket
  9. 16. Hard cleaning for a surgeon
  10. 18. Short, sharp pull of a sleeve
  11. 19. Pounding tool that drives the point home
  12. 20. Affectionate tap on the head
  13. 21. Barely touching, or just dining lightly on grass
  14. 22. Doctor's touch to find a pulse

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  1. 2. Light touch that provokes laughter
  2. 3. Heavy blow from a comic book hero
  3. 4. Gentle reminder on the shoulder
  4. 6. Modern way to reject or accept a match
  5. 10. Handled artfully or deceptively
  6. 11. Relieve an itch, or ruin a record
  7. 12. Turn a neat sheet into a ball
  8. 14. Choke off the engine's fuel supply
  9. 17. Slow progress made by pulling weight

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strong verbs

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  1. 1. To pull something apart by force.
  2. 2. To operate and control a vehicle.
  3. 3. To move back and forth while hanging.

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  1. 1. To propel something through the air with your arm.

easy

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  1. 5. Having little weight, making it effortless to carry
  2. 6. Free from agitation or strong wind, making navigation simple
  3. 8. Taking a long time, allowing for a relaxed and unhurried pace
  4. 9. Proceeding in a straight line without any confusing detours
  5. 12. To move effortlessly and smoothly without using active power
  6. 13. Relating to the most fundamental and uncomplicated level of something
  7. 14. Fully prepared for action so that execution is immediate and simple

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  1. 1. An outdoor meal that double-hats as a metaphor for a trouble-free task
  2. 2. Gentle or moderate in intensity, like a warm winter day
  3. 3. An informal state of relaxation and taking things very easy
  4. 4. Graceful and continuous, describing movement that flows without interruption
  5. 7. A gentle wind that makes things feel effortless
  6. 8. Firmly balanced and reliable, making it easy to maintain control
  7. 10. Easy to perceive, understand, or interpret without confusion
  8. 11. Something that is incredibly certain or simple to accomplish

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  1. 1. A sweet fruit with many small seeds inside
  2. 4. The visible gaseous part of a fire

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  1. 2. A hard, transparent material used for windows
  2. 3. A large area of open land used for farming or sports
  3. 4. A thick cloud of tiny water droplets near the ground

Vocabulary

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  1. 1. A racecar that looks the same coming and going
  2. 6. A picture worth a thousand words
  3. 7. A name that became a thing
  4. 9. The underground base of a word
  5. 13. Two words packed into one suitcase
  6. 16. The lowest form of wit that plays with fire
  7. 17. Short and not so sweet
  8. 18. A witty word on the tip of the tongue
  9. 19. The life of the sentence
  10. 20. A word that stands alone
  11. 21. A tail that wags the word
  12. 22. The total inventory of a mind
  13. 23. The part of a word that supports the leaves

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  1. 1. Speech without the bells and whistles of rhyme
  2. 2. A deafening silence in the dictionary
  3. 3. The dictionary makers university for short
  4. 4. A fresh start for any word
  5. 5. A borrowed term never returned
  6. 6. A language spoken by only one person
  7. 8. A million times better than a normal statement
  8. 10. A place for a person with a thing
  9. 11. Worn out by too much use
  10. 12. A polite mask for a harsh reality
  11. 14. The art of persuasion without the heart
  12. 15. A mistaken identity for a similar sound

I like parts of speech like homophones antonym, synonyms alliteration like the Jeopardy categories that are ends in ISH or ends in whatever. Anything language/words/grammar related.

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  1. 3. A brief explanation of a difficult word
  2. 7. Dormitory can become dirty room
  3. 9. Un or Re for example
  4. 14. Brunch or smog for example
  5. 15. A play on words often inducing groans
  6. 17. A punctuation mark that is more than a hyphen
  7. 18. Piece of cake or break a leg
  8. 19. Nominative or accusative for example
  9. 20. A person place or thing

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  1. 1. To speak indistinctly or an insulting remark
  2. 2. A common suffix for names and terms
  3. 4. A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word
  4. 5. Informal vocabulary used by a specific group
  5. 6. The total vocabulary of a language
  6. 7. It usually ends in ly and describes an action
  7. 8. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
  8. 9. Racecar or Madam
  9. 10. Two and To sound alike but differ in meaning
  10. 11. The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning
  11. 12. A polite way of saying something unpleasant
  12. 13. A word that means nearly the same as another
  13. 16. Palindromic partner of a feline

Obscure words

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  1. 4. A traditional saying expressing a general truth.

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  1. 1. A special or instinctive aptitude for doing something well.
  2. 2. Feeling or characterized by great anger.
  3. 3. To make someone feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried.

odd

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  1. 4. Being by oneself without others
  2. 5. Not functioning or slightly wrong

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  1. 1. An item kept in reserve for use
  2. 2. The very first odd number
  3. 3. A performance done by one person

Prefixes and Suffixes

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  1. 3. Formed by adding mis to inform, meaning to give someone false information
  2. 6. Formed by adding un and able to break, meaning not able to be broken
  3. 10. Formed by adding im to possible, meaning not able to happen or be done
  4. 11. Formed by adding ir to regular, meaning not following the usual pattern
  5. 12. Combines tele (far) and phone (sound) to name a long distance talking device

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  1. 1. Formed by adding pre to historic, meaning from the time before written history
  2. 2. Combines sub (under) and marine (sea) to name an underwater vessel
  3. 4. Formed by adding il to legible, meaning too messy or unclear to read
  4. 5. Combines auto (self) and graph (writing) to mean a person's own signature
  5. 7. Combines photo (light) and graph (writing) to mean an image captured using light
  6. 8. Formed by adding re to state, meaning to say something again in different words
  7. 9. Combines geo (earth) and graph (writing) to mean the study of Earth's features

Prefixes and Suffixes

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  1. 1. Word meaning to view before, formed by adding pre to a word
  2. 3. Word meaning to do again, formed by adding re to a word
  3. 5. Another word for the main part of a word before adding word parts
  4. 8. Word meaning the state of being kind, formed by adding ness
  5. 9. A word part added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning
  6. 11. Word meaning without hope, formed by adding a suffix to hope

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  1. 2. Word meaning to turn back, formed by adding re to turn
  2. 4. Word meaning the opposite of like, formed by adding dis
  3. 6. Word meaning to spell incorrectly, formed by adding mis to spell
  4. 7. Word meaning without harm, formed by adding less to harm
  5. 10. The main part of a word that holds its core meaning
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