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Challenge yourself with these word puzzles. Can you solve them all? For each set of words, there's another word with which each item can be paired to form a common word or phrase.. For example: light, menace, cross, herring, tape, and ant all pair with "red".
Each week on Facebook and Twitter we post a Quick Quiz about words. Here are some of our readers' favorites. Question #1: Add one letter to "fast" to create a word with the opposite meaning. The answer is ...
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Challenge yourself with dozens of word games, puzzles, crosswords, and quizzes with new content every day!
1 day ago · Jurisprudence goes back to the Latin phrase prudentia juris (literally "skill in law"), from which came the Late Latin formation jurisprudentia, and subsequently the English word. The noun jurisprudent means "one skilled in law"—in other words, a jurist or a judge. There's also jurisprude, a somewhat rare 20th-century back-formation created ...
