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Your task is to find words that, after taking their first letters away, have related meanings.

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Your task is to find words that, after taking their first letters away, have related meanings.

Example: Behead an animal and leave an animal (FOX, OX).

  1. Behead a musical instrument and leave a musical instrument.

  2. Behead a margin and leave a margin.

  3. Behead to liquefy and leave to liquefy.

  4. Behead to ascend and leave to ascend.

  5. Behead a proper name and leave a proper name.

posted Jul 12, 2017 by Swati Arora

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