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Divvying Up Words: Answers

Here are the answers to the quiz. Makes you appreciate them more, right?

  1. Naperon (cloth covering) Apron.
  2. Lingot (tongue) Ingot
  3. Oche (incision) Notch
  4. Ekename (also-name) Nickname
  5. Noumpere (equal) Umpire
  6. Naranj (Arabic for a citrus fruit) Orange
  7. Naught (nothing) Aught
  8. Ewt (small amphibian) Newt (But he got better.)
  9. Naedre (venomous snake) Adder (Insert Rowan Atkinson joke here.)
  10. Noger (tool for boring wood) Auger

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