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Saturday Stumper #9

A weekend challenge for your entertainment: find two words that end in each of the letter sequences below.
The length of each word is indicated
Words valid across all Scrabble dictionaries. Proper nouns (names, place names etc), not included
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First submittedJanuary 7, 2017
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Word Ending
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Answer
arce
5
Farce
6
Scarce
alk
5
Chalk
5
Stalk
rior
5
Prior
7
Warrior
ient
6
Client
6
Orient
Word Ending
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Answer
allow
7
Shallow
7
Swallow
gine
6
Engine
7
Imagine
cuit
7
Biscuit
7
Circuit
ostle
6
Jostle
7
Apostle
Word Ending
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Answer
nket
7
Blanket
7
Trinket
rald
6
Herald
7
Emerald
rture
7
Nurture
7
Torture
ctuate
9
Fluctuate
9
Punctuate
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6 Comments
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Level 32
Jan 8, 2017
For 'rior' you could surely have 'superior'
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Level 63
Jan 8, 2017
There are in fact six 8-letter words that end in rior, 'superior' being just one of them. It works better for the quiz to ask for just the single 7-letter word.
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Level 61
Jan 11, 2017
These quizzes are brilliant. Just hoping one day I'll get a perfect score on one of these...
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Level 51
Dec 26, 2022
Tagine could also work for __gine. Great set of quizzes.
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Level 88
Apr 27, 2024
That's the first one I thought of too.
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Jun 29, 2023
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