Name the game!

Name the games for which clues are provided:

1)  A game played on a lawn, with balls, mallets, hoops and a peg.
2)  There are 28 pieces, split into two sections, either blank or marked with numbers from 1 to 6.
3)  Played with pawns, knights and bishops.
4)  Played with shuttlecocks.
5)  Played with a ball and racquets and terms like love, deuce and advantage.
6)  A game played with a set of clubs, on a manicured piece of land, trying to get a ball into a small 
      hole. 
7)  Played with nine a side, with a bat and a ball.

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That dashed word!

Complete the following, and explain the meaning:

1. Jug- 
2. Shilly-
3. Pooh-
4. Willy-
5. Helter-
6. Namby-
7. Hogen-
8. Nulla-
9. Mumbo-
10. Hodge-

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Ssh! Find the Silent letters in these words!

1. Often.
2. Psychiatry.
3. Hour.
4. Gnostic.
5. Knock.
6. Pneumatic.
7. Rhyme.
8. Psalm.
9. Almond.
10. Cupboard.

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Collocations

What is a collocation?
This is a relatively new grammatical term. What I mean by that is that it wasn't taught to me when I was learning English in School 👴😊! This is partly because we were just a decade or so after the British Raj! So, for the most part, we just got used to using some words together!
Which is what a collocation is; "words that are used together by native English speakers". Some common collocations are :
1) A person with hair that appears yellow, is called a person with 'blond/blonde" hair depending on whether it is a male or a female. We do not call them yellow-haired!!
2) We say that people make mistakes not do mistakes.

These are just a  few of the various types of collocations. Will do more blogs on them later.

Words that end in -ment

I am giving you clues to words that end in -ment below:

1.  A program/show that gives pleasure to its audience:  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ment.
2.  Peaceful and happy: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ment.
3.  Shelling by artillery cannons: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ment.
4.  Making a deal or a contract with someone: _ _ _ _ _ment.
5.  Changing for the better: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ment.
6.  Mourn:_ _ ment.
7.  An institution that makes laws in a democracy: _ _ _ _ _ _ment.
8.  Something that you use to do something useful: _ _ _ __ment.
9.  A solemn declaration while writing a will: _ _ _ _ _ment.
10.  Something that you play to make music: _ _ _ _ _ _ment.
11.  Placing of money for a profit: _ _ _ _ __ _ment.
12.  These are often given in a Court of law: _ _ _ _ _ment.

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Find the word that means

1. Able to use both hands with equal ease.
2. A bent missile invented by Australian aborigines.
3. A group of ten years.
4. Consisting of several types.
5. A sea abounding in islands.
6. Views or principles spread around deliberately.
7. Several letters are interwoven into one.
8. A Mosque tower from which the call to prayer is given.

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Words beginning in "Can-"

1. A cute yellow bird
2. Card game
3. Sign of the Zodiac
4. Walking stick
5. Primitive boat.
6. Frank
7. White heat
8. Box for holding tea, cigarettes.
9. Famous French dance.

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Contemporary phobias

What is the fear of opening an email called? Aperpiphobia
What is the fear of bills called? Versurphobia
What is the fear of brands called? Nomenophobia
What is the fear of growing old called? Senecophobia
Just some of the new words one comes across these days!