The Literal Puzzle


My father had the advantage of learning Latin, and professed that this knowledge was a key to deciphering the meaning of many English words. While I never got past "Hibernia est parva insula", I could see what he meant. If you understand how manuscript means what it does, you are halfway towards an understanding of manufacture. If you realize that a podiatrist treats your feet, then you might wonder what an arthropod is, and how that's related to arthritis and gastropods.

  1. bad + comparison
  2. bad + saying
  3. black + humor
  4. body + eater
  5. bone + break
  6. flesh + tearing
  7. from + hang + out + cut
  8. good + doer
  9. high + name
  10. nose + twisting
  11. rock + oil
  12. spiral + wing
  13. together + born
  14. together + strike
  15. tongue + time
  16. water + maker

I give up, show me the solution.


Last revised on 08 June 2006.