MUTATIS – Challenge No. 8

INTRODUCTION- RULES
 

According to the rules described in the link above, here is your weekly exercises:

Given the following head and tail word couples, fill in the missing words to obtain appropriate Mutatis word-chains according to the rules described above.

 

Important note:

All the following examples were checked to insure they can be solved in standard American vocabulary and spelling according to the Merriam Webster online dictionary.

 

1. fall>…> rise.

2. rise>…> fall.  Don't use any of the words that you used in ex. 1!

3. plump>…> obese.

4. obese>…> plump.  Don't use any of the words that you used in ex. 3!

5. poetic>…> ballad.

Mutatis ex. 1-2

 

Mutatis ex. 3-4

Mutatis ex. 5

Solution

SOLUTION OF LAST WEEK'S CHALLENGE

Answer to ex. 1 foot>food>fond>fend>bend>band>hand.

Answer to ex. 2: hand>than>neat>note>font>foot.

Answer to ex. 3: logic>coils>coins>cones>scene>sense.

Answer to ex. 4:  sense>noses>songs>sings>sling>cling>logic.

Answer to ex. 5: bedlam>cabled>backed>sacked>casket>tracks> struck>ruckus. 

Answer to ex.6: ruckus>trucks>tricks>strike>streak>breaks>beards> blades>bedlam