Subject

FOUR-LETTER WORDS

Each answer is a four-letter word with two different meanings. (e.g., (a) Sound of a dog. (b) Covering of a tree. Answer: Bark.)

Freshman level

1. (a) To talk very proudly about something. (b) A large, black bird.

2. (a) Something performed on a stage. (b) To use an instrument to make music.

3. (a) A young cow. (b)The back part of your leg.

4. (a) Printed pages inside a cover. (b) Reserve something in advance.

5. (a) A formal event involving dancing. (b) A baseball pitch that is not a strike.

Graduate level

6. (a) A legal matter to be decided in a court. (b) A portable container.

7. (a) Very thin and narrow. (b) An amount of money to be paid as punishment.

8. (a) Tolerant and forgiving. (b) A category of common things.

9. (a) To arrive somewhere. (b) Part of Earth’s surface.

10. (a) A long tube. (b) Something used for smoking.

Answers: 1. Crow. 2. Play. 3. Calf. 4. Book. 5. Ball. 6. Case. 7. Fine. 8. Kind. 9. Land. 10. Pipe.

— North America Syndicate