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Probe, curb, oust: the short words of news headlines

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Probe, curb, oust: the short words of news headlines

Find the hidden word in six tries, with its meaning as a clue. Colours show which letters are in the right place.

  • English
  • C2
  • 12 items
  • ≈ 3 min
  1. Read the meaning given as the clue and see how many letters the word has.
  2. Type a guess and press Check.
  3. Each letter is marked: right place, in the word but elsewhere, or not in the word. Find the word in six tries.
How to play? Scoring and details
Scoring
Your answers are checked; at the end you see your score, your mistakes and the right answers.
With a keyboard
Type the letters; Backspace deletes, Enter checks the guess.
In this set
Read the meaning and find the headline word in six tries. The colours show which letters are right.
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