Editor's Corner

Good day, friends, and happy belated Labor Day.

I came across a couple of Dictionary.com quizzes that I thought many of you might like to try your hand at. I’ll freely admit that I did poorly on these quizzes. I’ll share one called Word Riddles today and one called Word Trivia on Thursday.

I hope you all do better than I did. I probably should have thought about each of them a little longer. Patience and perseverance are, indeed, virtues (that, apparently, I have very little of).

Today’s word riddles are directly below. You need to scroll down to get the answers.

These word-based questions are all about double or hidden meanings.

1. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
2. What gets wetter as it dries?
3. What can you break by doing nothing at all?
4. What disappears the moment you say its name?
5. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
6. What gets bigger the more you remove from it?
7. What belongs to you but is used more by other people?

ANWERS:

1. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?

A coat of paint

2. What gets wetter as it dries?

A towel

3. What can you break by doing nothing at all?

A promise

4. What disappears the moment you say its name?

Silence

5. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?

A joke

6. What gets bigger the more you remove from it?

A hole

7. What belongs to you but is used more by other people?

Your name

Donna Bradley Burcher |Technical Editor, Advisory | jack henry™

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