Here are the answers to the three quizzes in More Word Games for the Holidays.
IV. Apt Anagrams
- Conversation
- Desperation
- Softheartedness
- Waitress
- Punishment
- Disconsolate
- Hustlers
- Families
- Prosecutors
- Steaminess
V. Antigrams
- Evangelists
- Protectionism
- Untied
- Militarism
- Violence
- Funeral
- Infection
- Filled
- Enormity
- Santa
VI. Miscellaneous Musings
- (a) teepee (also spelled tepee); (b) voodoo; (c) assess; (d) muumuu
- (a) riffraff; (b) giggling; (c) pell-mell; (d) referrer
- dreamt (along with its uncommon compounds, undreamt, redreamt, adreamt)
- (a) eel, eerie; (b) llama, Lloyd; (c) oomph, ooze
- The letter h. (The word aitch is merely another name for the letter.)
- ideality (A seven-letter word containing five syllables is the place name Oceania.)
- There are several words that contain five vowels, but the best known are facetious and abstemious.
- value, changing into valve
- understudy
- queueing (also spelled queuing)
