- To mull over a problem, a peripatetic person will probably …
- go for a walk.
- talk to herself.
- eat.
- Your voice is created through vibration of your …
- vocal chords.
- vocal cords.
- What characteristic do impartial, reasonable, festival, and attractive have in common?
Answers
- a
- b
- They’re all synonyms of fair.
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Comments
I liked how the last teaser lands on fair as the shared idea behind impartial, reasonable, festival, and attractive. It is a neat reminder that small word puzzles often work best when the rules feel clear and balanced, which is also what I look for when using a random picker with students.
The peripatetic clue made me smile, and the fair connection between impartial, reasonable, festival, and attractive is a neat final twist. I have been using a live HTML previewer for small quiz pages, and compact answer sections like this are a good reminder of how much clear formatting helps readers follow along.
I enjoyed the mix of wordplay here, especially the vocal cords question and the fair-synonym answer. I keep little language puzzles in Markdown, so a browser viewer with live preview is handy for checking clue spacing and answer formatting before sharing them.
Even before I saw the solutions, I had gotten the first two questions correctly.
In question 3, the word ‘and’ should be ‘have’.
Well, I got the first two right before seeing the answers.