Chuckle 1054

Chuckle 1054
(Jayne C of Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Amazing Words~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

There is something unusual about these words, see if you can figure it out. The answer is below...but don't peek until you've given it a good shot!





Assess

Banana

Dresser

Grammar

Potato

Revive

Uneven

Voodoo

OK, see if you can figure out what these words have in common........

Are you peeking or have you already given up?


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Answer:

In all the listed words, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out?
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(Click Today in History and learn.)

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Today in history

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Word of the Day for Saturday May 27, 2006

malcontent \mal-kuhn-TENT; MAL-kuhn-tent\, noun:1. One who is discontented or dissatisfied.2. A discontented subject of a government; one who opposes an established order.
adjective:1. Discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied.

Her antagonism inspired him, pushed him into ever more extreme positions, and by the time he was ready to leave the house, and go off to college, he had indelibly cast himself in his chosen role: as malcontent, as rebel, as outlaw poet prowling the gutters of a ruined world.-- Paul Auster, Timbuktu

Willy, who grew up in Brooklyn, the son of Holocaust survivors, was a malcontent in college, a rebel with "a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was."-- Michiko Kakutani, "My Life as a Dog", New York Times, June 25, 1999

How would you like to be locked in a room for a couple of days with an irritable, depressed malcontent who also happens to be imperiously smart, bored and more than a little spoiled?-- Robert Nathan, "Irritable, Depressed, Spoiled and Terrific", New York Times, September 26, 1993

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(Find the 6 differences, answers below)