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Take a word of eight or more letters and use it to make five shorter ones. Then put up the next eight (or more) lettered word. Example:-

Existentialism

Exit
Tense
Smile
Exist
Steal

Contemplation
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Plant
Tent
Time
Motion
Complain

Agriculture
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Rice
Cult
Culture
Grit
Gale
Targe

Interesting
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in
rest
sting
sing
sin

unambiguous
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Interesting

rest
sting
inter
tine
ting

preternatural
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Scholar wrote: March 5th, 2021, 3:03 am in
rest
sting
sing
sin

unambiguous
you missed Scholars word, Nim.

Big
Bang
Sung
Bung
Smog

Deliverance
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Nimuae wrote: March 5th, 2021, 6:22 am Interesting

rest
sting
inter
tine
ting

preternatural
Natural
Patern
Return
Neat
Leper
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From deliverance then


Devil
Liver
Van
Dance
Lance
Deliver
Veil
Vale
Leave
Clan

Verisimilitude
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Little John wrote: March 5th, 2021, 6:37 am
Scholar wrote: March 5th, 2021, 3:03 am in
rest
sting
sing
sin

unambiguous
you missed Scholars word, Nim.

Big
Bang
Sung
Bung
Smog

Deliverance
Ooops - sorry Scholar!
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Verisimilitude

Dive
drive
live
liver
rive
mild
mile

enigmatic
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mating
antic
magnetic
nice
mice

antidisestablishmentarianism

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antidisestablishmentarianism :shock:

ant
mental
antenatal
dent
dental
mania
animal
mate
detest
test
bliss

Hypothetical
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Hypothetical

Poet
Hope
Clothe
Lithe
Loth


Cantankerous
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Cantankerous
Can
Tank
Can’t
Tanker
Ant
Rouse
Rank
Recant
Rent
Kent
Our
Rack
Reck
Tack

Weekends
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Desk
Weeds
Seen
Skew
Need

Coronavirus
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