See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common?

1. Banana

2. Dresser

3. Grammar

4. Potato

5. Revive

6. Uneven

7. Assess

Question 2. What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English and earn your Diploma. Would you graduate?

What nine letter word in the English language still makes a word when eight letters are removed one by one?

Not anagrams of another word?

No

You mean not what you were thinking of

The seven words all appear in the Oxford English Dictionary

they all make the same word if you move the first letter of each to the end then read from righ to left

Well done priapist.

Startling

A to do list for Wales golf event?

Startling is correct

1. Take away the L = Starting
2. Take away the T = Staring
3. Take away the A = String
4. Take away the R = Sting
5. Take away the T = Sing
6. Take away the G = Sin
7. Take away the S = In
8. Take away the N = I

Aye nice one.
My answer was all the words' 2nd and last letters are the same. Kinda right but not on the money.

Starlings

1. Take away the last S = Starling
2. Take away the L = Staring
3. Take away the A = String
4. Take away the R = Sting
5. Take away the T = Sing
6. Take away the G = Sin
7. Take away the S = In
8. Take away the N = I

Smart ass

Starrings

1. Take away the last S = Starring
2. Take away the R = Staring
3. Take away the A = String
4. Take away the R = Sting
5. Take away the T = Sing
6. Take away the G = Sin
7. Take away the S = In
8. Take away the N = I

Re Starrings:
http://www.fortbendstar.com/mainpages/starrings.htm

What 8 letter word has 26 letters in it?

Alphabet

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